Meet Robin Alpern who did just that.

Robin tells her story from becoming aware of racism and white privilege to getting involved and becoming an anti racist activist.

She is now the director of training at the Center for the Study of White American Culture, where she co-designed and co-leads a series of workshops on What White People Can Do About Racism.

The 13th amendment: 

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

Some suggestions from Robin if you would like to get more information:

Websites:

Center for the Study of White American Culture

https://innocenceproject.org/

Films:

13th (full-length movie by Ava DuVernay)

When They See Us (on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549)

Articles:

https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/school-prison-pipeline-infographic

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2013/the-school-to-prison-pipeline

Books:

• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
• The New Jim Crow (Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness)
• Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
• Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in in United States History and Life

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