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Speaking on stage to an audience, Yara Mekawi, an assistant professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, said there are “ways for white allies to speak up” about “racial injustice” while “staying in their lane.”
She advocated for psychologists to use “motivational interviewing to help white allies overcome their ambivalence in their antiracism commitment.”
She noted that psychologists have outlined these strategies in a book called “Beyond Fragility.”
Professor Mekawi “is the director of the Challenging Ongoing Legacies Of Racism (COLOR) lab,” according to her biography on the University of Louisville’s website.
Another speaker, Natalie Watson-Singleton, associate professor of psychology at Spelman College in Georgia, condemned anti-DEI policies and blamed them for “censorship.”
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She also described an APA training for “white allies” called “Step Up and Step Back” where white attendees learned how to advocate for antiracism without centering themselves.
Finally, the professor advocated for psychologists to use different therapy methods, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, to “help white allies overcome the various barriers that are part of their allyship journey.”
She said “white allies” need to be taught “how to regulate the anxiety that gets activated when their white racial identity is brought to the fore.”
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Prompted by the viral videos, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the school.
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