Reflect, Support and Act:
A message from Founders Circle and The Circle
Founders Circle and The Circle stands with the Black community. As a team, we are focusing on the following: Words are better than silence. Actions are better than words.
Racism against black people in America is not OK. Period.
If like us, you’re trying to figure out what’s your next step, we are encouraging each other to reflect, to support, to act. Here are a few resources to help us all strive towards that.
REFLECT
- Podcast: On Being with Krista Tippett, “Let’s Talk about Whiteness” (2017)
- Article: New York Times Magazine, “White Debt” (2015)
- Article: The Atlantic:America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us (2020)
- Article: NY Daily News,Living in Minneapolis while black: How George Floyd’s city feels to me (2020)
- Article: Vanity Fair,Here’s Why It Hurts When People Say “All Lives Matter” (2016)
- Video: Trevor Noah on George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery, and Amy Cooper (2020)
- Book: How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Book: The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander (2012)
- Book: Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- Book: White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin Diangelo (2015)
- Book: The Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela (1995)
SUPPORT
ACT