Resources from "End White Silence" event (May 31, 2020)

Reaching out to Councilmembers (San Diegans for Justice)

Videos:

• Interview with Alex Vitale, author of ‘The End of Policing’ 
• Think of what it means to feel ‘safe’ to you. What comes up?

Articles:

• Slate: "Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide"
• The Guardian: "The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. Here's why"
• San Diego Union Tribune: "Report: Blacks stopped by police across the county at higher rates than Whites"

Media And Books:

• 13th dir. Ava DuVernay (on Netflix)
• The New York Times 1619 Project and Podcast
• Letter from a Region in my Mind by James Baldwin
• How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Me And White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Slavery By Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon.
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (section on policing)