Racial Justice

KFTC's Racial Justice Committee

KFTC's Racial Justice Committee helps ensure the organization is incorporating racial justice and anti-oppression into all of our work and strategies.  The Racial Justice Committee’s work includes informing the membership on issues affecting racial justice, coordinating education and skill-building opportunities, and ensuring that racial justice principles are applied to all areas of KFTC’s program of work in an intersectional way. The Committee helps ensure KFTC is being a good ally and is working in solidarity with other organizations on these issues.

Where we stand

KFTC's Statement on Black Lives Matter - Why 'Black Lives Matter' matters

KFTC's Statement on Immigrants, Refugees, and Muslims

Resources

KFTC is launching a political education curriculum in 2021 where we will learn from abolitionist perspectives about defunding the police and moving toward our vision for ALL people to enjoy a better quality of life. Sign up to stay informed on when this curriculum will launch at cutt.ly/PoliEdSeries

VIDEOS

Unvictimizable: Fatphobia and Ableism as Weapons of Antiblack Violence with Professor Anna Mollow (32 minute video)

Lydia Brown on Disability Justice Intersection with Racial Justice and Queer/Trans Liberation (40 minute video)

ARTICLES

1619 Project – New York Times Magazine
400 years ago, in August 1619, a ship landed at a British colony in what is now Virginia carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. 250 years of slavery followed. On the 400th anniversary of the start of slavery in the U.S. the New York Times tries to truthfully tell the story of what happened then, and since.

Journal of Environmental Sociology on Intersections of disability justice, racial justice, and environmental justice (a bit academic, but very relevant) 

Trump's Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History (Truth Out opinion piece)

A US Immigration Policy History of White Supremacy and Ableism (Aljazeera opinion piece)

Jim Crow’s Disabilities: Racial Injury, Immobility, and the Terrible Handicap in the Literature of James Weldon Johnson (Project Muse)

OTHER

Book recommendations from Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation

Fighting for Social Justice: The Power of Women of Color (a short timeline)