Friday, March 26, 2021
Black diversity speaker sparks outrage among Philadelphia library staff after telling them to avoid terms like 'white supremacy' and 'white privilege' because people of color can cause harm too
The Free Library of Philadelphia is under fire after a speaker brought in for diversity and inclusion training told staff to avoid terms like white supremacy and white privilege because they were overused and focused on just one race.
Diversity consultant Brandi Baldwin, who is black, led the training session for nearly 200 library employees last week via Zoom, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
She referred to phrases including white supremacy, white privilege and systematic racism as 'myths' and argued that they shouldn't be used because they distract from solutions and don't account for the fact that people of color can cause just as much harm as white people.
'Are all the inequities you experience at the hands of white people?' Baldwin asked.
The presentation drew outrage from many attendees who said it directly contradicted the message they've been pushing in a years-long fight against racism and discrimination within the Free Library.
Among the critics was Andrea Lemoins, a library community organizer who co-founded Concerned Black Workers of the Free Library, a group that has led numerous racial justice protests over the past year.
'Black folk, we are seriously suffering from PTSD from that [expletive] training, even thinking about it now, I just wanna cry,' Lemoins told the Inquirer.
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Australia: "Golden Gaytime" icecream could be forced to change its name because LGBT community finds it 'offensive'
Australia's popular Golden Gaytime ice cream could be forced to change its name after being slammed by the LGBT community as 'offensive'.
Brian Mc, from Melbourne, launched a petition to replace the name of the 62-year-old treat, prompting a heated battle with owner Streets.
'As a part of the LGBTQIA+ community I believe my sexual identity is owned by me, not a brand and that the outdated meaning no longer applies. Isn't it time for this double entendre to end?' he wrote on the online petition, which has garnered 800 signatures.
'Under the law they are seen the same, discrimination means being treated unfairly or not as well as others because of a protected characteristic like age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race or disability.
'It's not my place to tell Streets what to call their re-branded product, but I do feel it's time that the Golden Gaytime is called out for being outdated, especially when Streets is releasing new products and cross promotions in 2021.
'Just to be a gay man, even in 2021 is still hard … (we) still have a long way to go to be fully accepted as equals, but if we see an area in life that's not equal, and we are able to change it for the better, why wouldn't you speak up?'
Mr Mc said his aim isn't for the product to be cancelled, but is calling for 'Gay' to be removed from its name.
The ice cream giant issued a statement saying that the first Streets Gaytime was released in Australia was in 1959 'when the word 'gay' had not yet been applied to sexual preference.
'The origin of the Gaytime name was and remains related to having a joyous or happy time and was meant to capture the pleasure that comes with enjoying an ice cream.
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Concerning the diversity training at the library, the truth hurts doesn’t it. Everyone has the potential to be racist or not, it is a choice they make.pretending that one group can only be racist and the other never is is a lie. In the 60’s and 70’s we were taught to try to be color blind to judge people on what the were and did, not on what the looked like. I guess that didn’t keep the country as divided as some would like, so we are being forced to go back to judging people by chloe. Martin Luther king must be spinning in his grave.
"If the truth offends you, the problem is with you." - unknown
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