Published: 2 October 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
As the protestors gathered in anticipation of the march across Brooklyn Bridge, the three female organisers behind the Women’s March on Washington - Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour - passionately urged the crowd to do more to fight white supremacy. “It is not enough to be here," Sarsour said, adding that what matters is "whether we are doing it in our places of employment, public schools, churches and synagogues.
"One of the hardest things I have ever done is combatting anti-black racism in the Arab-American community, challenging my own people on issues around racism, around anti-Semitism, that is my job to do, not your job to do. "It is not my job to educate white people on how to be anti-racist; it’s the job of white people to educate other white people. It is not my job as a Palestinian Muslim woman to educate Jewish people that Palestinians people deserve dignity and respect,” she said.
FULL STORY ‘It is not my job to educate white people on how to be anti-racist’ (Haaretz)
Photo: Linda Sarsour speaks ahead of the March for Racial Justice (Yana Paskova/Bloomberg)
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