{"id":87,"date":"2021-04-07T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:32:06","slug":"action-opportunity-how-can-we-better-avoid-racial-equity-detours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/action-opportunity-how-can-we-better-avoid-racial-equity-detours\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Opportunity &#8211; How can we better avoid racial equity detours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Flipping the narrative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If those who raise concerns about equity in an institution face greater hostility, if they are labeled as militant or angry for telling the racial equity truth, if they are silenced or made to feel less central to this institution,\u00a0<\/span><b>then,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> we should see these actions as a failure of equity leadership and the signs of a \u201csick\u201d institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Start where we need to be<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: equity is neither optional nor negotiable. We should be able to say: \u201cThis is who we are as [a school] and these are the values to which we will be held accountable.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our best resources are equity minded individuals. When we make them the center of our institutions we are primed for equity progress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipping the narrative:\u00a0If those who raise concerns about equity in an institution face greater hostility, if they are labeled as militant or angry for telling the racial equity truth, if they are silenced or made to feel less central to this institution,\u00a0then, we should see these actions as a failure of equity leadership and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/action-opportunity-how-can-we-better-avoid-racial-equity-detours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Opportunity &#8211; How can we better avoid racial equity detours?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}