Advocates say that one of the most important ways to be an ally to marginalized people is to educate yourself on the systems that oppress them and your role in sustaining those systems.
We begin this process with these commitments:
To continuously update this webpage with information that will educate ourselves further. If you can recommend podcasts, books, films or other media which you have found useful we would appreciate your suggestions via the form below.
Ensure we do everything we can, through visual and physical representation, to make the YesTribe a welcoming community for all.
Build a welcoming, inclusive and diverse platform of outdoor ambassadors, through our storytelling events, #YesGrant scheme and partnerships.
Live private video calls, not recorded, to further discussion within the YesTribe about the actions we can take against racism.
Begin an anti racism section in our YesTribe library on the YesBus, with active reading days on the bus as the COVID-19 pandemic lifts.
Our community grew organically through word of mouth, through inclusion not inclusion. But as an overly white, privileged community we commit to improving our education and action about race and racism. Please take time to listen, read and view the content below, suggested and recommend by our community. There is no order of priority, these materials have been listed in order of submission.
Books
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here - Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Other Media
Why do you burn down your own neighbourhood
Trevor Noah on George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper
Melanin Basecamp Guide to Outdoor Allyship
Ted: How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston
Trevor Noah on Reparations & White Privilege
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege
Challenging the Narrative by Appalachian Trail
Rapper Akala on Linking Knife Crime to Race
10 Steps to non optical allyship
White Anti Racism, be the Legacy
Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge
What the protests have already achieved
We will continue to do our utmost to further equality. It is so easy to consume media - especially easy media on Facebook and YouTube - which backs up the reality we want to believe in, whatever that looks like.
So please dig deep and spend time reading entire books, form your own ideas, learn from experts and not only commentators. Most of all, care for other humans. Treat everyone equally. Act explicitly to encourage equality for inequality is at the heart of many issues we care deeply about, from environmental protection to healthcare, plastic pollution to poverty disparity.