particularly white folks call it like i believe that this black body does not believe in this coded white space, therefore i feel threatened and i know that i have the agency to call some sort of authority figure to correct that. where you don t have the agency to be the authority figure. and that is how it feels to be in milwaukee. everything me and serita talked about may seem impossible and too big to dismantle but there s actually a workshop across town that s trying to do just that. complete with powerpoint. we re defining anti-blackness as the distance between black people and your, your acceptance of their dignity. it s put on by university of milwaukee wisconsin professor monique liston. so today s workshop is focused on understanding dignity and anti-blackness. and so we focus on understanding dignity as sort of our responsibility to interrupt systems of oppression. dignity resonates with folks so deeply because we re talking about every single individual can talk
this is serita mcfadden, a milwaukee native, writer, and new york city english professor. and she knows all about the racial history of this city. people believe that black people moved out of the south to escape racism and then they moved to these northern cities where there was no racism. there was so much racism. yeah, exactly. with hilarisad. i never heard that word but i think i knew exactly what you meant. or sadlarious. the north or middle west north buys into this nartdive that they are somehow far more superior in terms of character and tolerance. if we call it midwest nice. i was going to say that. yeah. but there s this like veneer of like i m not in my heart racist. but you re doing shit that s racist a.f. let s just go with why the city has the shape that it does. so this map is from 1937. it s what they call a security map. but in common parlance we call
from. if you are from here or want to get something going on, you had chicago or new york or anywhere not milwaukee. according to a study by the university of wisconsin, madison, the state lost 14,000 college graduates per year between 2008 and 2012. that s called brain drain. brain drain hurts milwaukee s ability to innovate over the years. but there are people doing their part to keep all the brains here. people like lisa caesar, a harvard-educated entrepreneur and her brother, john ridley, a hollywood writer, director, and producer with a packed resume, mostly known for winning an oscar for writing this. do you believe in justice as you said? i do. slavery is an evil that should befall none. the feel good movie of the summer. the things that i had to learn about slavery to even
because i also have some experience of a coffee shop with some not wanting me to be in their coffee shop. he came here to the elmwood cafe in berkeley. he met up with his wife sitting in an outdoor table and showing her a book when the employee knocked on the window and told him to go away. i went away and went straight to the internet and told everyone. after those things happened, i think a lot about where i get my coffee. in milwaukee, there s a place if i get kicked out, it won t be because of the color of my skin, it will be because of the content of my character. coffee makes you black is a shop that serves to black people and people who are nervous being near black people. milwaukee in the 60s was the 11th largest city in the united states. really? yeah. isn t that strange? what happened? this is serita mcfadden, a
writer and english professor and she knows all about black history here. black people moved out of the south to escape racism and moved to the northern cities where there was no racism. there was so much racism. exactly. it s hilarsad. or sad larious. the middle west north buys into this narrative that they are far more superior in terms of character and tolerance. we call it mitt midwest ninth. there is this veneer of like i m not in my heart races. you are doing shut that s racist af. let s just go with why this city has the shape that it does. this map is from 1937. it s what they call a security map, but in come on parlance we can call ate red-lining map. it was a series of maps produced by the federal government.