Author Archives: White guy (Matt Stauffer)

I didn’t start hearing the term “ally” until college, when a girl in my dorm identified herself as an “ally”, meaning, “someone who stands for LGBTQ people and their rights.” On one hand, I appreciate the idea of choosing an identify for oneself. “I am someone who chooses to spends energy, money, and relational capitalContinue reading “Being an Anti-Racist Ally: A resource”

I think the biggest thing that I learned from the first two chapters of how to be an anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi is that there’s no such thing as not racist; you’re either racist or anti-racist in any given action. But the second thing that I learned was that racist and anti-racist or notContinue reading “I am not racist or antiracist; I act, speak, or think in racist or antiracist ways”

Yesterday was Juneteenth, commonly known as “The True Independence Day for African Americans.” This year there seemed to be a collective awakening to the importance of Juneteenth outside of the Black community. Companies, governments, and white folks who’ve never uttered the word suddenly cared deeply about it. Some of it was probably performative, but it’sContinue reading “Best of Juneteenth: Brittany Packnett Cunningham’s Me & Dad Takeover”

I have a long-term reading list, but it takes me a long time to read each book, so let’s start with just what I’m reading right now: How to Be an Anti-RacistI’m about 1/4Th of the way in, listening on Audible. I’m very interested in the ways Kendi concretely defines racist and anti-racism, and howContinue reading “Reading list: June 2020”

I’m a white guy. I don’t know much about Black art, history, theology, music, food, writing, culture. But I want to. I should have been taught these things in school but I wasn’t. I’ve learned so much through the efforts of my Black friends and teachers to make these things easily consumable by people likeContinue reading “What is “White guy, Black liberation”?”