Empathy Education Resources
“Compassion means to suffer with. Not pity. Not sympathy. Not saving. But co-suffering. It’s a visceral desire to be with each other in the pain and a vital longing for new possibilities together. What if one of the great byproducts of this pandemic season was seeing our own story of struggle in each other’s stories, then not remaining silent when we hear their cries? What if on the other side of this earth-shattering time, we rebuilt a new world together with the broken pieces, leaving out racism in all its forms, white supremacy, police brutality, oppression, injustice, mayhem, violence, bitterness, and fear-mongering? What if we who have benefited from this inequitable system humbled ourselves, leveraging our privilege to be part of a different way forward for our brothers and sisters of color and thus for us all?” - @hopeheals
As an organization, we are listening to the voices of others with empathy and taking action. We encourage you to be brave and join us as we learn more, grow into our discomfort, and love one another. Our team has compiled a list of resources to explore and some ways to get involved.
Books to Read
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism | Robin DiAngelo
- How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
- Raising White Kids | Jennifer Harvey
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
- When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America | Ira Katznelson
- Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society | Michael K. Brown et. al.
- The Bluest Eye | by Toni Morrison
- So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? | Beverly Daniel Tatum
Podcasts To Listen
- Code Switch | NPR
- Pod Save the People | Crooked Media
- 1619 | The New York Times
Movies to Watch
- 13th | available on Netflix
- Fruitvale Station | available on Amazon
- Remember the Titans | available on Amazon
- When They See Us | available on Netflix (series)
- Fences | available on Amazon
- Selma | available on Amazon
- LA 92 | available on Netflix
- The Hate U Give | available on Amazon
- Just Mercy | available on Amazon (free on YouTube for month of June)
- Do the Right Thing | available on Amazon
Support the Foundation
- Make a donation to provide food and computers to Chester families.
- Volunteer to be a mentor or speak at our Launch program.
- Sign up to receive our emails (see bottom of page for sign up).
- Participate with us a one of our future events.
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