August 31, 2020
Episode 2

Non-Racist is a Cop Out

Featuring: Amber Cook, Educator & Activist

Featured Guests

  • Amber Cook

    Educator & Activist

    Amber is a Black female educator from Baltimore, Maryland where she currently serves as a Math Resource Teacher. Amber founded the grassroots movement, Bmore: Standing in Solidarity, which aims to empower people of all races to begin and continue their equity journey.

Now is the time to lean into the discomfort of talking about race. On this episode, we acknowledge our identities as a Black American and a white Canadian to discuss what it means to be anti-racist as both a human and an educator.

Show Notes:

  • 4:01Checking-in on current events in Baltimore County.
  • 6:46Why this time is different.
  • 11:00What does it mean to be anti-racist?
  • 16:28What does “people of the global majority” mean?
  • 17:49How do we call-out racism & call-in with love?
  • 19:35Grappling with white shame & guilt.
  • 23:27Cultural norms that impede change.
  • 26:36We are at a breaking point.
  • 29:05Being an anti-racist educator.
  • 42:00Be a part of Amber's #SmallGreatThing.

Significant Quotes:

It’s so much more important now that humans get together with humans.

Amber Cook
3:21

This isn’t a them problem. It’s an us problem. It’s a me problem.

Natalie Vardabasso
10:25

Non-racist is a cop out. Non-racist is still racist.

Amber Cook
14:00

At the end of the day I can’t dismantle racism by myself as a black person, I need white people to stand with me and do that work.

Amber Cook
19:27

It takes a teacher in a kids face to teach them what they’ve never known to be true.

Amber Cook
38:00

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