A New Year of Accountability

It is the end of the first week of 2021. Let this be the beginning of year reminder that the #GlobalDevelopment sector is STILL racist and built on white supremacy.

Your 1-week anti-racism training isn’t the work.

Your internal workgroups of BIPOC people talking about racism isn’t the work.

Welcome to a new year of accountability.

This week White Supremacists in the United States provided an urgent reminder that:

• Diversity Training will not dismantle white supremacy.
• White people buying anti-racism books won’t dismantle white supremacy.
• White women claiming to be allies, feminists and intersectional allies will not fix and have not fixed white supremacy.

WHY?

1. Power is a drug for white folks. They are unwilling to concede their power. White women, we are looking at your role in this too especially in the global development sector.
2. A complete dismantling of structures is what is needed. We cannot work with the same tools that built the white supremacist global development complex. We must radically reimagine this sector and be bold and courageous in our reimagining. It is our time to do so.
3. Our Index is the first attempt to provide accountability for racism in Global Development. However, it is one of the many steps that are needed to dismantle systemic racism in global development.