Unfiltering the Fury: A Workshop for White Managers on Reducing Racial Harm

For decades (centuries, really), people of color have had to bear the weight of racist people, policies, systems, institutions, and cultures. With COVID-19, the race rebellions following the murder of George Floyd, and the rise in ultra-violent racism against Asian and Muslim communities, institutions are continuing to experience a kind of reckoning. But drafting and posting statements of solidarity and hiring a DEI staffer/consultant is not nearly enough to identify and shift the way racial power moves through people and systems within an organization. And it’s certainly not enough to protect your staff of color from internal/organizational experiences of racism.

Many white people who manage staff of color are making things worse for their team members without knowing it. In order to prioritize the need for immediate reduction of harm experienced by BIPOC staff, Yejin has put together a 3-hour workshop for white managers who need advice on how to tangibly stop themselves from causing or compounding racial harm in the workplace.

What this workshop is: This is a workshop to support white managers in reducing the amount of pain they are unknowingly causing to members of their team. Yejin’s target audience is almost never white. But at the behest of her community of BIPOC sibs, she is using her passion and skills and ability to concretely identify the operational ways in which racial power moves to hopefully help people of color move through their days a bit easier. This is an emergency workshop.

What this workshop is not: This is not a workshop to instruct white managers on how to deeply commit to a life of anti-racism. This is not a workshop to make space for white managers to process their feelings of defensiveness, shame, anger, or frustration. This is not a workshop where white managers can debate the realities of racism experienced by people of color.