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Okay, friends, let\u2019s talk about going to protests and weaponizing our whiteness, if in fact we are white.<\/p>\n

You know what the protesters who marched with Dr. King wore? Their best. Their clergy stoles, their suits. If you\u2019re a doctor or a nurse? Wear your scrubs. If you\u2019re a parent? Wear your PTA shirt if it\u2019s too hot for a suit. If you\u2019re a student? Dress like you\u2019re going to go volunteer somewhere nice, or wear a t-shirt that proclaims you a member of your high school band, your drama group, your church youth group. Whatever it is, make sure it\u2019s right there with your white face.<\/p>\n

This is literally the tactic of the people who marched with King in the 60s, and we need to bring it back, and bring it back HARD<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I do this all the time when I go to marches. I wear my cutest, least-offensive geeky t-shirt, crocs and black pants, or I wear my t-shirt that mentions my kid\u2019s school district, or now I\u2019ll wear the pink t-shirt that says I\u2019m part of the Sisterhood at my shul. If it\u2019s cold enough, I wear a cardigan and jeans and sit my ass in my wheelchair. (I need to anyway.) I put signs on my wheelchair that say things like \u2018I love my trans daughter\u2019 and \u2018love for all trans children\u2019 or something else that applies to the event. Dress like you are going to an interview if you can, or make yourself look like a parent going to pick up a gallon of milk at the corner store. Make yourself \u201crespectable.\u201d Use respectability politics and whiteness AS A WEAPON.<\/p>\n

Fuck yes I will weaponize the fact that I look like a white soccer mom. And you should do this too if you can. Weaponize the fuck out of your whiteness. If you are disabled and comfortable with doing so, turn ableism on its head and weaponize it. Make it so that the cameras that WILL be pointed at you see your whiteness, see your status as a parent, see your status as a community member. See you in your wheelchair or with your cane. If you have privilege or a status that allows you to use it as a weapon or a shield, use it as a shield to defend others or a weapon to break through the bullshit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This has a fair number of notes, so maybe it\u2019s already been mentioned but \u2026<\/p>\n

The \u201cSunday Best\u201d thing from the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s & 60s, or wearing markers of an assigned profession (e.g. scrubs) is an established tactic of social movements. \u00a0They\u2019re part of what Charles Tilly (one of the academic god father\u2019s of social movement theory) called\u00a0\u201cWUNC\u201d displays. \u00a0WUNC can be broken down to:<\/p>\n