white women: let’s talk about racism and your complicity.
-Regina & Saira
Mission
Our mission is simple - reveal the naked truth about RACISM in America and UNLEASH YOUR POWER as white women to dismantle it. This isn’t the stuff of Trump, the KKK and Nazis. That’s easy, it’s obvious and denouncing it requires almost nothing of white folks. What’s hard? Looking at yourself in the mirror and acknowledging that, as a white person in America, you are an active participant in upholding white supremacy. This isn’t personal. This doesn’t make you bad. This is systemic. This makes you human and an integral part of that system. Black and brown women are also part of the system. The truth is, we are on opposing sides: Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) are on the receiving end of white supremacy while white people… white women… YOU are on the giving end. Until and unless white women are willing to disrupt white supremacy, we will never see change. white women: you have the power to disrupt and dismantle the hate.
That is where the Race 2 Dinners come in.
white women: We are talking about your complicity in upholding white supremacy and keeping Black and brown women down. Our goal is to reveal to you what BIPOC have always seen: your white privilege, your power, your control and your complicity in all of the above. You are an integral part of this system. Are you willing to use this power to dismantle the hate rather than to uphold it?
white women: it’s time to acknowledge your racism.
-Regina & Saira
so you’re wanting to know more?
Dinners are all at once uncomfortable, intriguing, raw, personal, and hopefully refreshing.
This isn’t a delicate dinner conversation; nor are attendees sitting in the audience of a Ted Talk feeling exempt from personal accountability. This is an intimate, direct conversation about how the white women at the table are complicit in the continued injustices of our white supremacist society and how they can immediately take action. White women attending these dinners need to be committed to resisting white defenses and the host is prepared to interrupt white fragility so as not to derail the conversation. It’s a new approach, and while it may not be for everyone, it fills an urgent need. Race2Dinner has inspired white women to push harder than they ever knew they could.
In the end, we hope white women choose gender over whiteness and realize their liberation is directly connected to that of Black, Indigenous and brown women.
Interested in hosting a dinner?
“If you don’t own it, you can’t change it. And change doesn’t come without pain. ”
