{"id":108971,"date":"2020-06-01T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.afromagazine.eu\/jennifer-tosch-amsterdam-1-juni-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:39:03","slug":"jennifer-tosch-amsterdam-1-juni-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/jennifer-tosch-amsterdam-1-juni-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Tosch | Amsterdam, 1 juni 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afrom-315880844\" class=\"afrom-voor-inhoud-singlepost afrom-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghanatours.nl\/keti-koti-pelgrimstocht\/\" aria-label=\"AFRO-BANNER-728X90\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90.webp\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90.webp 728w, https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90-300x37.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><blockquote>\n<p><strong>It is NOT our responsibility\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Tosch, can I just say that your speech gave me chills!<br \/>\nIt is sad that the revolution shall not be televised because your words are worth to be remembered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every now and then I get questions from\u00a0white brothers and sisters, asking me what they can do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You broke it down. Therefore I&#8217;d like to share a part of your message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dear white people!<br \/>\nDo you hear me?<\/p>\n<p>Your first responsibility is to understand it that<\/p>\n<p>is NOT our responsibility to end racism!<br \/>\nIt is NOT our responsibility<br \/>\nWE didn\u2019t create it<br \/>\nIt is YOUR responsibility to dismantle the structure of power<br \/>\nIf we believe in equal justice than we must dismantle inequality in our own society<br \/>\nDo you hear me?!<\/p>\n<p>You must ask the question:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What does it mean to be white?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It embodies:<br \/>\nPOWER<br \/>\nPRIVILEGE and<br \/>\nTERROR<br \/>\nTo so many black and brown people around the world!<\/p>\n<p>Come to terms with that<br \/>\nAre you uncomfortable yet?<br \/>\nGet comfortable being uncomfortable<br \/>\nBecause we have work to do!<\/p>\n<p>For my black brothers and sisters<br \/>\nDo you hear me?<\/p>\n<p>Your job is equally as important<br \/>\nYou must HEAL YOURSELVES!<br \/>\n[..]&#8217;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"url-to-video-container youtube-container no-js\"><span class=\"youtube-player url-to-video-player loader\" data-youtube-id=\"3qedFdNAVgc\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you sister, for your words and your strength<\/p>\n<p>One Love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is NOT our responsibility\u00a0 Jennifer Tosch, can I just say that your speech gave me chills! It is sad that the revolution shall not be televised because your words are worth to be remembered. Every now and then I get questions from\u00a0white brothers and sisters, asking me what they can do? You broke it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[2583],"class_list":{"0":"post-108971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinie"},"authors":[{"term_id":2583,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mermar","display_name":"mermar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b97554d899a7ce8df2bc286c2f73beda56ebbc97d5d9ced74f7a04498e0fb0d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108971"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=108971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}