White fragility is “a way for the white body to avoid experiencing the pain of its historical trauma inflicted by other white bodies.” (Page 108) “There is only one way through this stalemate. White Americans must accept, explore, and mend their centuries-old trauma around oppression and victimization.” (Page 109)
From My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (Part 1: UNARMED and DISMEMBERED, Chapter 4: THE FALSE FRAGILITY OF THE WHITE BODY) #HowWeHeal – Racialized Trauma – Book Club Selection, 2nd Tuesdays, February through November, 6 to 7 pm, http://zoom.us/j/5602987293Edit
Published by Joanne Scott Woods, M.A., M.Ed.
Coordinator of People Demanding Justice Community Coalition (formerly People Demanding Action Community Coalition with Geoff Woods, Chapter Leader, Joanne Scott Woods, Chapter Secretary, and Dan O’Neal, State Director) /
Organized in 2015, Currently a Racial Justice and Racial Healing Nonprofit /
Spokesperson for the Family of Fallen Phoenix Citizen Rumain Brisbon, December 2, 2014, along with Geoff Woods /
Metropolitan Phoenix Citizen Advocate for Kim Baker and Family Since 2015 /
Committee Chairman, “Ten Solutions to Build Trust in Our City,” in Collaboration with the Phoenix Police Department, Executive Assistant Chief Michael Kurtenbach, 2015-2020, People Demanding Justice Community Coalition with Geoff Woods, Chapter Leader and Contributor, Joanne Scott Woods, Chapter Secretary and Contributor, and Wade Padgett, Contributor, and Contributors from Coalition Members of Arizona Black Lives Matter Chair Reverend Reginald Walton and Co-Chair J.J. Johnson, now J.J. Westgate /
Author of “Ten Solutions to Promote the Healing of Racialized Trauma,” 2020 /
Facilitator, #HowWeHeal Book Club on Racialized Trauma, 2020 /
Secretary of Somos America Coalition, 2016 /
Director of Arizona Communities for Change Public Forums, 2016 /
Acting Secretary of Arizona Black Lives Matter, Reverend Reginald Walton, Chair, 2015
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