Becoming Anti-Racist

No longer underground and now written into state election law revisions, racism and white supremacy still plaque Americans.  To help you become aware of becoming anti-racist,  I’ve prepared the following questionnaire:

Please answer the following 8 multi-choice questions to determine your score:

  1. Which state has the largest population of blacks and browns?

(  ) Georgia    (  ) Alabama    (   ) Louisiana  (  ) South Carolina  (  ) Mississippi

  1. How many US presidents owned slaves?

(  ) 2    (   ) 8        (   ) 12         (  ) 5

  1. Who was the first African American Woman to be arrested for taking the wrong seat place on a bus?

(  ) Rosa Parks        (   )Claudette Colvin    (   ) Shirley Chisholm

  1. Check any of the following games, songs, foods, books, videos, or shows that are implicitly racist:

(   )Gone with the Wind  (  )Aunt Jemima Syrup  (    ) Roblox

(  )Monopoly (   ) Color Purple  (   ) What Color is God’s Skin  from Up with People

(   ) Minstrel shows  (    ) Brown Sugar from Rolling Stones

  1. What program did J. Edgar Hoover start “to destroy, expose, misdirect, discredit and neutralize black leaders”?

(   ) FBI      (     ) COINTELPRO     (    ) TOP HOODLUM PROGRAM

  1. What contributes to the School to Prison pipeline for black and brown students?

(   ) School dropouts or suspensions  (  )Drug trafficking (   )single parent households

  1. Slaves were taught to read and write with the Bible.

(  )yes                          (  ) no                 (    )not sure

  1. When a black person says the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, he or she thinks

(  ) I am patriotic    (    ) Liberty and Justice for whom?  (   )about God

Email authorterrywebb@gmail.com for correct answers.

You are anti-racist if you got 6-8 responses correct.  You are concerned about Racism if you got 5-6 correct.

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