{"id":272,"date":"2023-02-15T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/?p=272"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:49:17","slug":"post-to-share-read-us-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/post-to-share-read-us-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Us Them: What it Really Means to Belong&#8221; Reshare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we want to see change we need to be part of the change &#8211; even when it\u2019s hard to do.<br><br>I have met some pretty amazing people throughout my career that have left lasting impressions on me, but no one quite like my dear friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAHlNQUBOgy0TpgDiOCo8NI4559xbppx9Ac\">Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC<\/a><br><br>Nneka and I met while working at a Foundation in London, Ontario. We became fast friends and the closer we became, the more I started to see the systemic racism she had to maneuver through on a daily basis.<br><br>To be honest, as a privileged white woman I was pretty naive to what was happening around me and the convenience of having my blinders on was a very comfortable space to be in. But after witnessing the subtle fuckery of systemic racism it was REALLY HARD to put the blinders back on.<br><br>During this time, while Nneka was volunteering on a Board of Directors she experienced a form of racism that I hadn\u2019t quite witnessed before. Though new to me it was hardly new to Nneka. This experience she shared had me question the entire integrity of the system we operate in.<br><br>Though these acts can sometimes happen without us fully realizing we\u2019re part of the problem, it is up to each and everyone one of us to take a hard look at these uncomfortable situations and decide how we truly want to act, how we want to contribute &#8211; because doing nothing is still contributing.<br><br>In solidarity with my dear friend, I would like to share her story with you. I hope it will encourage people to ask themselves the hard questions, to speak up and to not just sit ideally by when something feels off.<br><br>Read Us Them: What it Really Means to Belong<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theempathyagency.ca\/us-and-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gpjrJ4RW<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=collectingcourage&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7032084961989955584\">#CollectingCourage<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=blacklove&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7032084961989955584\">#BlackLove<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"1484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-21.jpeg\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-21.jpeg 686w, https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-21-139x300.jpeg 139w, https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-21-473x1024.jpeg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Activate to view larger image,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.licdn.com\/aero-v1\/sc\/h\/cpho5fghnpme8epox8rdcds22\" alt=\"love\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.licdn.com\/aero-v1\/sc\/h\/8ekq8gho1ruaf8i7f86vd1ftt\" alt=\"like\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.licdn.com\/aero-v1\/sc\/h\/b1dl5jk88euc7e9ri50xy5qo8\" alt=\"celebrate\">19<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to see change we need to be part of the change &#8211; even when it\u2019s hard to do. I have met some pretty amazing people throughout my career that have left lasting impressions on me, but no one quite like my dear friend\u00a0Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC Nneka and I met while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin","tag-us-and-them-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}