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Eradicating Racism’s mission is in its incubating phase and 1+1+1=One is excited to explore its Arts Based Civic Transformation™ model and the opportunity to bring a transformative approach to the conversation of racial justice and equality.
Our mission is to Acknowledge, Heal, Act (AHA…). We Acknowledge the role that racism has played in our lives and our society, Heal the wounds that hold us back, and through everyday Action - work consistently toward a racially just and harmonious world.
Eradicating Racism’s first campaign is Till the White Day is Done, a holistic journey involving a multi-dimensional and interactive experience through the interdisciplinary arts, education, and entertainment.
It includes the voices of Game-Changers, Paradigm-Shifters, Wisdom-Callers: Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli and his father, Dr. Perry Green, April Silver, Rosa Clemente, Danny Hoch, Inga Musico, Jeff Chang, Tim Wise, Suheir Hammad, M1, Esther Armah, Baba Israel, Chuck D, MC Serch, Marcella Runell-Hall and many more.
Elements of this campaign include:
The Book
Till the White Day is Done, edited by JLove Calderon, explores what it means to be white in so-called “post-racial” America, taking a deeper look at white privilege and its impact on people of color and white people. A percentage of proceeds from the book will be donated to projects that work toward racial equality.
“While millions of white folks are committed to—if not chomping at the bit for—a “post-racism” time, few seem willing to see our own racism, how it operates inside our hearts and the difficult work that is required in order to uproot it. I know there are many kinds of racism and hatreds, and whites are not the only folks who choose to engage with the world in this way. However, and this is a big however, white folks, whether consciously or not, inherit a life in the dominant culture and if that is not reckoned with, white racism will continue as if has for the past 500 years in the Americas.” -Inga Musico, Essay
The Documentary
A series of shorts leading up to a documentary which will serve the purpose of dissecting divergent perspectives on the topic of racism and white privilege, increasing dialogue and awareness.
“…The problem is, when you leave your white community at home bereft of any thought provoking culture and activism, then your community grows up and becomes soldiers and senators and congressmen and even presidents. And they wind up making policy for us in New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco. And then you complain and you rail about the right wing but the right wing is there because you left. That’s why the right wing is there. So you’re a hypocrite to sit in New York City with your Obama button at your Obama party and your Obama rally voting for Obama in New York State when Obama is already gonna get elected here without you. But it’s not glamorous to go to Colorado and try to get your community to vote for Obama. It’s not glamorous to stay in Wisconsin and get your white community to vote for Obama. As a matter of fact it’s dangerous. -Danny Hoch, Interview
The Curriculum Guide
A curriculum guide edited by Dr. Marcella Runell-Hall (editor of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook, and Conscious Women Rock the Page curriculum), which takes the themes and issues from the book and has activity guides and lesson plans that allow activists, educators, community leaders, and everyday folks to take the learning to the next level, focusing on action.
“It was in junior high school where cops went from being people who looked like they could help you, to them looking at me with suspicion. I remember that feeling. All through my life, teachers had real problems with my name. I remember being told by educators that, with my name, I would never be able to have a real position in America. I remember people telling me, when I had my first son, named Amani Fela, that I shouldn’t have named him an African name because he could never be president with an African name.” -Talib Kweli, Interview
The Tour
Acting as Eradicating Racism's main outreach and education program, the national Till the White Day is Done Tour includes town hall meetings with in-depth community dialogues designed to engage communities, and forge a new vision of social and racial justice around the world.
