8 minutes
Whose work this is Dismantling racism is not unpaid teaching by the person who already pays the cost.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Whose work this is” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: How should the team use the concept? Document a next step for Whose work this is: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. The guide is blunt: those with racial privilege do the education. BIPOC staff are not the curriculum. What the guide actually says Institutional and structural racism is not a personal failing you fix in the hallway. It is everyone’s work. It can be perpetrated by anyone of any race. Dismantling it is predominantly the work of people who hold racial privilege and power inside the institution.
BIPOC staff already live the harm. They are then asked to prove it happened and to teach the room how racism works. That double shift is not Inclusion. It is extraction.
What stamina looks like on a Tuesday What you were taught How race was explained in your family, school, and first job. Sameness-as-fairness is a curriculum. Name it.
Power in the room Who can lock the packet. Who can only comment. Who will be asked to “give the race lens” with no time on the clock.
Mistakes This stage includes failure. Repeating the same miss after it is named is the problem. Leading by how you repair is the work.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether whose work this is changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Carry this forward Dismantling racism is not unpaid teaching by the person who already pays the cost.
You control whether whose work this is changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, a knowledge-check response and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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Course overview Next lesson Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
