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Rashad Robinson

Principal, Rashad Robinson Advisors · 1 appearance on the record.

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Under Robinson’s leadership, Color Of Change grew into the largest online racial justice organization in the United States, driving major corporate accountability campaigns. He counsels organizations through Rashad Robinson Advisors and authored the book From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter—and Win.

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2 assertions · 9 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Rashad argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
How Color of Change forced Hillary Clinton to return private prison money
“A campaign back during the 16 election, we ran and we went back and forth with the Clinton campaign to give back their private prison donations. And we went back and forth, right? So we sent two emails to the Clinton campaign. One was like a smiling Hillary th…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 18:40 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson

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Everything Rashad Robinson said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Power is the ability to change rules, not just gain visibility
“Presence is visibility, awareness, retweets, shoutouts from the stage. Presence is not bad, but when we mistake presence for power, we sometimes think we've done things that we haven't actually done. We mistake a black president for thinking that we are post-r…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 4:29 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Passive language protects financial institutions from accountability for systemic inequality
“When you say black people are less likely to get loans from the bank, people ask themselves, well, what's wrong with black people? Maybe we should give them financial literacy. If we say, you know, banks are less likely to give loans to black people, then we a…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 9:39 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Charity fails to solve structural inequities, like sending water to Flint
“When we Deal with sort of charitable solutions to structural problems. What ends up happening in our public policy is folks sending water bottles to Flint and stopping short of actually cleaning up the pipes, doing service days at inner city schools, instead o…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 10:07 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Cosmetic victories like Black billionaires mask a widening racial wealth gap
“The systems that we are fighting are durable and strong, and they were made to be durable and strong, and sometimes they will create space for Us to have cosmetic victories that aren't actually progress, right? We can have more black millionaires and billionai…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 20:45 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Robinson: Activist leadership means building platforms, not acting as spokesperson
“I fundamentally believe that leadership in activism is not being a spokesperson for people who are not heard, but about building the vehicles and the infrastructure so that people can be heard for themselves.”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 1:21 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Disclosure
Robinson: Color of Change avoids campaigns lacking clear theories of change
“So you're not going to see a campaign from Color of Change that says, tell Mitch McConnell to stand up for affirmative action. As much as we may want Mitch McConnell to stand up for affirmative action, there's no amount of Color of Change members signing a pet…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 5:51 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Robinson: Persuasion relies on societal narrative rather than simple messaging
“Persuasion is not just about some sort of messaging. It's about narrative, because narrative, once again, is about power. About the rules and norms of society. What is acceptable, and what is possible.”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 8:53 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Robinson: Marginalized entrepreneurship often requires rebuilding institutions that excluded them
“You know, there's kind of like this sort of two types of entrepreneurship that, I kind of see in the black community that entrepreneurship of trying to build something that, you know, adds a new service, adds a new resource. And then the thing for oppressed pe…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 12:19 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: Black Americans created US independent media due to exclusion
“Black people literally have really created independent media in this country, and so black people have constantly had to sort of reimagine and find new ways to build things, whether it was to provide something new or whether it was to provide the same exact th…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 12:48 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Assertion Supported
How Color of Change forced Hillary Clinton to return private prison money
“A campaign back during the 16 election, we ran and we went back and forth with the Clinton campaign to give back their private prison donations. And we went back and forth, right? So we sent two emails to the Clinton campaign. One was like a smiling Hillary th…”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 18:40 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Robinson: Movement infrastructure is essential to retain victories against systemic backlash
“Infrastructure gives us the ability to not just achieve big things, but to hold on to those big things, but also to then face down the forces that really stand in the way of change.”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 21:59 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson
Insight
Robinson: Black joy is the presence of aspiration, not the absence of pain
“Black joy is not the absence of pain, but the presence of aspiration. Not just what we are fighting against, but what we are fighting for.”
Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 1:03 Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson

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Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson Aug 26, 2021 17m
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