Flipping The Script: White Privilege and Community Building

Some of us were born on third base and thought we'd hit a triple. How do we help those less privileged without replicating the structures that created the inequity inthe first place?

Flipping the Script, (pdf) is a book designed for people who work in communities to identify and address issues of white privilege, oppression, racism and power as they play out in their work. It is for community builders, grant makers, technical assistance providers and others who are trying to develop more equitable and thoughtful partnerships with community residents and organizations.

Flipping the Script is written by Maggie Potapchuk of MP Associates, Sally Leiderman of the Center for Assessment and Policy Development, together with Donna Bivens of Women's Theological Center and Barbara Major of St. Thomas Health Clinic. (from the Women's Theological Center press release)

I haven't read it yet, so feel free to comment/discuss here to get me off my butt.

Thanks to Karen J. for letting me know about this.

I am a Total Geek! (NOT!)

the Geek Test gives me 27.2% geekiness. The Answer is 42... I was on my high school's Dollars for Scholars TV Trivia team... 7 of 9 is not really about percentages but hotness, and Junkyard Wars is awesome for imagining post-apocalyptic survival. Imagine what a geek I'd be if I understood how the inside of a computer works, or knew any computer languages, or how to program, or, really, anything more than how to make these programs go!

Hey HappyCindy's brother -- take this test and let me know how you fare. You understand all the computer stuff which will give you great point scores (although perhaps your successful social skills and incredible good looks will detract from your total score) . Don't you have to be an Extreme Geek or above to be making money from your geekiness?

This is their scale.

+ Geekish Tendencies................................≥09%
++ Geek.............................................≥15%
+++ Total Geek......................................≥25%
++++ Major Geek.....................................≥35%
+++++ Super Geek....................................≥45%
++++++ Extreme Geek.................................≥55%
+++++++ Geek God....................................≥65%
+++++++! Dysfunctional Geek.........................≥75%

THE GEEK TEST UPDATE

My mom clicked on the link I've removed above, and her internet security suite identified an "intrusion attempt" from that website. Mine didn't though, and it's the same companies program, and up to date, and I'm not enough of a geek to understand why hers did and mine did not, so I have removed the link.

If you're geeky enough to understand such things, or if you're just foolhardy, the address is http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html. but i'm not embedding the link b/c I don't want to be responsible for anyone else clicking through w/o thinking about it.

HappyCindy's brother may understand and explain????? Or Michelle?

Rachel Maddow is now on Air America Radio and KARMA

Monday - Friday from 7-9 am. Listen as she pokes a sharp stick at the right wing scheme machine. You can go to Rachel's show's website here.

She picks up news "they" don't want us to hear -- she finds when the government takes out the trash and release inconvenient news to be hidden by bigger or more dramatic stories.

You can listen online anytime you want if you have dsl or cable modem!!! Go the website to Stream Today's Show . The shows go online a few hours after broadcast.

Sadly, Monday, her first day on the air in this new, extended drive time slot, she bragged about her vacation trip to Mexico, where she ate and drank whatever she wanted and didn't get sick. Lettuce, water, everything.

So yesterday's show was hosted by Mark Riley who stayed on for her two hour time slot while she and the porcelain goddess bonded.

I mention this now because since she's better, it really is kind of funny.

I myself invited karma like that many years ago when I made fun of women who had chemical sensitivities to perfume. At the time I was a smoker, (and I was a polite smoker, always went outdoors, blew my exhaust away from people and everything) but I couldn't conceptualize how anyone could be allergic to perfume and I must admit I was, behind their backs, vicious in that 80's kind of catty gay bar way.

Of course, later in life, having a crappy immune system due to undiagnosed celiac disease and 10 years of smoking, I too became "allergic" to perfume and other chemically laden, petroleum-based products. I've become one of those chemically sensitive people, holding my breath when I pass certain elderly ladies in church, never going into restaurants that have smoking, having two reasons for not shopping at Walmart (1 economic and 1 the plastic smell makes me stoned and stupid) and, alas, eating organic food.

So it was funny when she bragged about not getting sick and then got sick. I was about her age when I bragged like that.

Am I a bad person for thinking it's funny?