Corey Williams

Anti-racism advocate and speaker. Racial healing coach. Harvard grad, loves to read and fry chicken. Always night owl, sometimes writer, often party planner.

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In folk etymology, this phrase comes from English common law acceptance of a man’s right to beat his wife, with an implement no wider than his thumb. It's debated, but the questionable connections are enough to suggest eliminating this phrase.
#idiomstolose #languagematters

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Chinese firewall is a phrase unnecessarily appropriated from another culture and that's not even an apt comparison - the Great Wall of China was designed to prevent a one-way attack and a “Chinese firewall” is intended to block any information sharing. #dei #diversity #equity

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The phrase "tipping" entered general use as a metaphor to describe the moment when white families began to move out of a neighborhood in reaction to Black families moving in. #idioms #languagematters #inclusionmatters #dei #diversity #equity #inclusion #sair #saircollective

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"No can do." "Long time no see." These phrases were created to mock the accent of a Chinese person speaking English as a second language.
While it might seem folksy, phrases are insensitive and harmful.
#idiomstolose #langaguematters #dei

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Though we often use the word pow-wow to refer to a meeting, it is appropriated from indigenous American culture. For Indigenous Americans, a pow wow is a gathering of great cultural importance. #idioms #languagematters #dei #diversity #equity #inclusion #sair #saircollective

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From the 1880s until the 1950s, this chant was typically sung “eenie, meenie, miney, mo; catch the N-slur by the toe.” I, for one, can describe making a choice without that song. #idiomstolose #langaguematters #dei #diversity #equity #inclusion #diversityequityandinclusion

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The term basket case comes to us from World War II, when soldiers who'd lost all four limbs, were retrieved from the battlefield in a basket.
It is insensitive to both veterans as well as the disabled community. #idiomstolose #langaugematters #dei

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The phrase, “sold down the river,” refers to the sale of people away from their kin. In 1808, when the US barred the importation of enslaved people, forced breeding and trading became more prevalent. Enslaved people, were often sent, via boat, to slave markets. #idiomstolose #dei

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This idiom is both insensitive and inaccurate. Insensitive because totems were important ancestral, spiritual, and cultural products with meaning. Inaccurate because the position of figures did not necessarily represent a hierarchy. #idiomstolose #langaguematters #dei

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"Grandfather clauses" were workarounds to the voting literacy tests enacted by southern states to keep newly enfranchised Black people from voting post-Reconstruction. #languagematters #dei #diversityequityinclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #idiomstolose

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Ever wonder about phrases like "circle the wagons" or "grandfather clause?" For a long time, I never slowed down to think about them, but now I am.

Language matters. Comeback everyday for the next 20 days for more! #inclusion #diversity #DEI #languagematters

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Today is Global Forgiveness Day. The blessing of forgiveness centers and empowers the giver not the receiver. #globalforgivenessday #forgivenessday #forgiveness #power #blm #antiracism #sexualassault #metoo

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Why are outcomes are still so different for Black and white Americans? This 6 minute video from Code Switch is a place to start in understanding how the FHA loan program translated into policies that still do harm today. Link here https://t.co/gbm2hSiXX5 or in my bio. #blm

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Cell Press has published a list with links to the biographies and work of 1000 inspiring Black scientists. I am grateful for efforts like these!

https://t.co/PTJjlsXiTT

#antiracism #antiracist #stopracism #blm #blacklivesmatter #love #equality #nojusticenopeace #allyship

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Talking about racism takes courage. Listening can take courage too. Sit with and believe the stories and experiences of others. We all experience this world differently. And we can't value diversity without valuing diverse stories.
#antiracism #antiracist #stopracism #blm

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Twice each year I open the doors to UNLEARN, a 9 week exploration of the historical origins of anti-Black, your racial socialization and your implicit and explicit bias. Come with me on a guided journey to courageous self awareness and race-brave insight. https://t.co/38Y5z6opLI

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(via Thought Co.) Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is a writer and activist, perhaps best known as the author of "The Color Purple" and more than 20 other books and poetry collections. https://t.co/0mZTsNiUCL

#antiracism #antiracist #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2021

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(Via Smithsonian Magazine) - Already the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968, Chisholm made her ambitious attempt to win the White House decades before her country was ready for her. Her slogan was 'unbought and unbossed.' https://t.co/SBKKsEoPdi

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Cultural racism is how culture conveys the idea that whiteness is better. Seeing cultural racism is critical on your antiracist journey and awareness of it requires deep inner work. Join me for a FREE MASTERCLASS on the inner work of antiracism. https://t.co/BKIfMcyddk. #BLM

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(The Root) — Mae Jemison, the first black woman ever admitted to NASA's astronaut training program, made history when she went into orbit on the space shuttle Endeavour in 1987. #blm #blacklivesmatter #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2021
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