Start by considering whether the affected person wants help at all.
Our friend Naomi is a white ally who works for a charitable organization. Her white male boss recently decided to establish a committee to address issues of diversity, inclusion, and racial equity. Naomi feared that if the mostly white leaders didn’t structure committee meetings carefully, they would exclude the voices of people of color. She read some antiracism resources on how to elicit diverse perspectives and shared some recommendations with her boss.
Naomi felt distraught and conflicted. She felt the force of the criticism: “I should have consulted the people I was trying to help.” At the same time, she held fast to her initial instinct: “I thought the whole point of allyship was not to burden others with this work.”
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