2022 Black Well-being Final w links for Web 11.29.22 - Flipbook - Page 48
BLACK WELL-BEING REPORT 2022
Dismantle systems that harm us and replace them with systems that heal
Trauma is peeled away in layers and found within interactions. A system is the sum of
its parts — a series of people, rules, norms, and actions. Once we see how they function
together, those parts can be rearranged and replaced to cultivate well-being.
• Know our rights under current laws and policies.
• End performative investments in equity offices, positions, plans, and
statements that have no real power to make structural, budgetary, and
policy changes.
• Give decision-making authority to Black people who can implement
community-designed solutions.
Hold people, not systems accountable
Organizations, agencies, groups, and teams are all made of people. Each of us within
these systems are responsible to some degree for that system functioning. Simply
putting a Black person in a leadership role does not automatically change how that role
functions within that system. Nor does it immediately equate to the system changing.
• Normalize compassionate accountability — personally, in community,
in organizations, and across systems.
• Assess the impact of your role and individual choices. We are all
capable of harm. Get support to repair harm and prevent it from
happening again.
• Don’t ignore harm just because we like the person causing harm,
especially if that person is you.
• Get help noticing the ways you may be conforming to a broken system.
• Build transformative justice approaches into our systems and
community interactions.
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