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LifeOnaPlate

LifeOnaPlate

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Hey. I've been MIA around the board since everything went down in March. Honestly it's been too painful to spend time thinking much about the Jazz with how the season was going and with how the league shut down and how our guys were divided. But I'm still here.

I was watching all the discussions about racism on Twitter and Facebook and decided I had to do something. So I came up with a series of videos called "Five Minute Fights Against Racism." It's a series of videos debunking stereotypes, addressing common misconceptions, and helping Jazz fans get better equipped to fight racism in ourselves and our community. I would hugely appreciate your feedback, comments, and most importantly, if you would follow the accounts, subscribe on YouTube, and share it. I think we have to address the reputation problem head-on.

YouTube channel: bit.ly/antiracistjazzvids
Facebook page: fb.me/5minutefights
Twitter and Instagram @antiracistjazz
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
Hey. I've been MIA around the board since everything went down in March. Honestly it's been too painful to spend time thinking much about the Jazz with how the season was going and with how the league shut down and how our guys were divided. But I'm still here.

I was watching all the discussions about racism on Twitter and Facebook and decided I had to do something. So I came up with a series of videos called "Five Minute Fights Against Racism." It's a series of videos debunking stereotypes, addressing common misconceptions, and helping Jazz fans get better equipped to fight racism in ourselves and our community. I would hugely appreciate your feedback, comments, and most importantly, if you would follow the accounts, subscribe on YouTube, and share it. I think we have to address the reputation problem head-on.

YouTube channel: bit.ly/antiracistjazzvids
Facebook page: fb.me/5minutefights
Twitter and Instagram @antiracistjazz
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Many thanks, LOP!! Enjoyed the first one and wish you well with future installments. I agree that we need to start with ourselves first.

One of the things I'm confronting in trying to live a more anti-racist life is pleasure I get from sports talk (such as on this board) in which part of the seduction is fantasizing that I have control over the buying and selling of players -- treating them as disposable commodities, basically. It's not something I'm morally comfortable with (and I hope I never am), though I recognize that it's part of the whole system that generates billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. One of the things I admire about LOP is that I've never gotten the sense that treating players as commodities is part of his fandom.

I hope he doesn't mind me pushing (what appears likely to be) another anti-racist project on this thread: the Utah YWCA's 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge. I can't vouch for this program, as it hasn't even started yet, but it looks like a good way to help prepare us for the return of the NBA (starts tomorrow, ends July 27).
 
idiot said:
Many thanks, LOP!! Enjoyed the first one and wish you well with future installments. I agree that we need to start with ourselves first.

One of the things I'm confronting in trying to live a more anti-racist life is pleasure I get from sports talk (such as on this board) in which part of the seduction is fantasizing that I have control over the buying and selling of players -- treating them as disposable commodities, basically. It's not something I'm morally comfortable with (and I hope I never am), though I recognize that it's part of the whole system that generates billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. One of the things I admire about LOP is that I've never gotten the sense that treating players as commodities is part of his fandom.

I hope he doesn't mind me pushing (what appears likely to be) another anti-racist project on this thread: the Utah YWCA's 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge. I can't vouch for this program, as it hasn't even started yet, but it looks like a good way to help prepare us for the return of the NBA (starts tomorrow, ends July 27).
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Thanks idiot! Thanks for calling my attention to the YWCA challenge. I am going to tweet that out right now.
 
"Racism in ourselves" is the real problem. Not cause it exists in everyone but that people are being conditioned to believe that just cause they are a certain skin color that they are inherently racist.

Stop spreading this lie. It's not true and there is no reason for anyone to feel bad about their own skin color or conversely feel guilty because of it.
 
DasJazz said:
"Racism in ourselves" is the real problem. Not cause it exists in everyone but that people are being conditioned to believe that just cause they are a certain skin color that they are inherently racist.

Stop spreading this lie. It's not true and there is no reason for anyone to feel bad about their own skin color or conversely feel guilty because of it.
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It's only untrue because all humans have racism in themselves.
 
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