How to Be an Antiracist

This is important. I think we could list some books that are good reads for white people on how to understand how to be an ally. One I would recommend to start is How To Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi available ~~here and many other places.~~ Actually screw Bezos. Here is a list of black-owned bookstores you can purchase from https://shoppeblack.us/2018/11/black-owned-bookstores-2/

This is a great book to answer that. But try to not buy from Amazon if possible

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

Ibram X. Kendi How to Be an Antiracist

Reading is what lets me conclude the absurd level of cynicism and bigotry involved in this movement: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

So, a couple of things.

First, there's no appropriating this language. It's designed to prevent class consciousness, either by drawing the focus away from class and toward identity or by taking the language of Marxism and reworking it to apply to identitarian meanings. There is only one way to deal with it, and that's by pointing out its Orwellian nature, its shallowness, and its fakeness. It has to be fought. It has to be derided and condemned.

Second, I agree with you that it's becoming increasingly mainstream, though I think this is a continuation of a trend that has been ongoing for years now. I think the popularity of White Fragility was actually a major sign of that. I know several well-meaning people who bought that book and read it so that they could understand how to think in this new era, and it's frightening. But there are other weird little pop-wokeness self-help books out there too. Some of them are really brazen about their self-help guru grift. This is the creation of a cultural industry, and it provides tools for social control, completely equipped with self-sustaining ideological rationalizations. It also has to be fought, derided and condemned.

It's not enough to just call bullshit though. People want this stuff because they're hungry for answers, on race and everything. One way to fight it, I think, is to provide antidotes that contain actual scholarship. I tend to push Racecraft pretty hard on people because I think it fits that bill, and we have our stupidpol sages like Reed and WBM and I think they're good, but I'm starting to think that we need to be a little more aggressive on pushing our reading lists so that innocently curious people might actually pick up something that will keep them from spiralling into trendy wokery.

You should check out the book How to be Antiracist. Chapter 8 in the book defines a "behavior racist" as someone who makes "individuals responsible for the perceived behavior of racial groups" and who makes "racial groups responsible for the behavior of individuals."

I know this definition may sound kinda dry and boring, but the author also provides concrete examples from his daily life. How you have titled your post is very similar to an example given in the book.

Regardless of the content of the session, the speaker’s fee here is pretty typical. I help select speakers for the various meetings my employer organizes, and $20,000 would be on the lower end of the scale.

You could look at this as an educational benefit for FCPS employees. It says there were roughly 1,500 virtual attendees. That works out to having spent $13.33 per attendee. That’s less than the price of buying each person a copy of his book. Seems like $20k well spent to me.

I've actually been spending less time on reddit and more time reading during this past year. Here's a book that might help educate you on the subject of race in America: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

How to Be an Antiracist https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525509283/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QQ9GFb9ATEB0R

Examples of what? I don’t think you understand what racism is and in the year 2020 that is very disturbing.

I consider starting reading White Fragility this weekend and How To Be An Anti-racist. Here’s the link for the latter in Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/ref=nodl_

Good luck!

And that idea came from this book:

How to Be an Antiracist https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525509283/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8ZeeFbGJFP27R

> Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. - Jesse Williams 2016

OP, this is for you:

How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

Beat-seller: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

You are approaching this from a position of privilege, read chp 3 of DiAngelo https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/ref=pd_lpo_14_img_0/132-5998335-1229257?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0525509283&pd_rd_r=a3e8376f-cc14-4bbe-9bd5-5257dec1d928&pd_rd_w=d4jAw&pd_rd_wg=mLuYW&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=45YVY06XA97APNTKVC0J&psc=1&refRID=45YVY06XA97APNTKVC0J

Depends on which definition you use:

> a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

This is far from a settled question, but most of the authorities I trust on this topic say that you can be racist against your own race. (https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/)

start here:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/

when you're done with that your next homework assignment is

https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/

if you want any more you'll need to pay tutoring rates because it's not by job to teach white kids what their parents never did. you have access to the internet, you are fully capable of finding out the answers to this instead of being a sea lion

I think your friend should have said something, but know--from experience--that it is very hard to do that. Especially when caught unaware and by surprise and even more so when in a group and you're the only one who is speaking up and aren't sure what to say. Calling out racism effectively is something that takes practice and skill and knowledge. Sadly, in our country, your friend (and you!) will have plenty of opportunity to practice in real life situations going forward, so don't let your friend beat themselves up for not having said anything this time. Just be ready and willing to say something next time.

If your friend is interested in being better prepared the next time they hear something racist and want to point it out, reading So You Want To Talk About Race is an EXCELLENT place to start. Another good and helpful read is How to be an Anti-Racist.

Start here, and here.

Examples would be everything related to law enforcement The war on drugs. Prisons. The Judicial System. These are all systems that statistically discriminate against black people. Police are more likely to let a speeding white person off with a warning while a black person will more likely get a ticket. Black people are more likely to be arrested for small drug charges despite equal usage rates between races. This includes being fined for pot in decriminalized states. Prisons create a pseudo-slave labor system and have very high recidivism rates, and with the majority of people in prison being black, you should be able to see where I'm going with this. The Judicial system is no better. All these black people arrested usually get charged with a bunch of trump up charges and are then bullied into accepting plea deals giving them a record, or they fight the charges and get a useless public defender who is overworked and probably hasn't even read your file by the time you stand trial.

I can go outside of law enforcement though. There are statistical hiring biases by race in the private sector. Having a black sounding name can be enough to have your resume thrown in the trash. Have you ever heard of the term redlining before? It was how cities segregated themselves back during the time of Segregation. Well those racial divisions are still in place in most cities in the US. Many of them have turned into some of the most notorious ghettos in the country. Those neighborhoods are all poorly developed, subjected to unscrupulous landlords, poorly maintained, full of lead (lead has been scientifically linked to violence and cognitive decline), and even grifters trying to get black people to sign over any settlements they may get from the city due to those neighborhoods.

It goes on and on and in many ways that even I don't know because I'm white and don't have that lived experience. There is a popular book you should read called How to be Antiracist that goes into this stuff and more. I suggest if you are truly curious about what systemic racism is then you should get it and read it.

>I disagree. I think law enforcement reform is the only way to battle unfair discrimination.

Law enforcement reform is EXACTLY how to fix this, but you also said increase their funding. No. Absolutely not. The Defund the Police movement isn't a movement to eliminate policing altogether. What it says is that the roles of police in our country are WAAAAY too broad. They are called for mental health issues, fires, injuries, parking tickets, traffic etc. We've defunded way to many other services in the country that used to handle these things and dumped them onto police. For instance, we shouldn't need an armed person with no psychiatric training going to the house of a mentally ill person to calm them down. That's how these people are murdered by the police.

So by defunding the police you remove all the superfluous shit they have to do, take the money that they received to do those things and then create new departments in government with that freed up tax money to handle them responsibly. Police can still exist to solve major crimes like murder, theft, rape, fraud, etc but other stuff should be elsewhere. Why do we need armed officers giving out speeding tickets? We don't. There could be a department that is solely dedicated to traffic enforcement where the agents aren't armed and all they do is ensure that are streets and highways are safe for drivers from other drivers.

Also, we need to either eliminate police unions or massively defang them. Enforcers of the system shouldn't have the strongest worker representation in the country. Especially when those enforcers are used to prevent other labor movements from gaining momentum.

The last thing we need is to give the police more funding though. They've got too much money and toys already. That's why they are free to do what they want.

I would not expect the term to be supported by all POC and all minorities to believe systemic racism exists or is a big problem. Systemic racism isn't applied equally and may not be apparent in your everyday life. However, there are many POC who share experiences dealing with systemic racism.

Here are some examples from Ben & Jerry's systemic-racism-is-real. I don't think you need to agree with all of these points and there of course are underlying reasons that lead to different outcomes by race. However please note these two compelling cases: * Black men get harsher sentences for the same crimes as white men (on average). This is a consequence of bad policy and inadequate protection. * Black children have less tax money spend on their education that white children (on average). This is policy based.

I am not going to pretend that I am well read on this, but I would recommend checking out the book !How to Be an Antiracist. Professor Ibram X. Kendi walks through his own experiences, research, and his own framework for looking at racism in society. He talks about the time he believed the idea of systemic racism made people lazy, which your friends seemed to have brought up. As you can imagine, he no longer believes that. It is an interesting read that not only gives insight to the experiences of black men in American, but also the history of racism and examples of racist policies. I personally learned a lot!

The "Anti-racist" concept is from this book and similar works.

This isnt about being pedantic. Its about emerging schools of thought in dissolving systemic racism in practice.

You are who I am talking about when I mentioned the memes above.

If I'm allowed to give book recommendations, I'd like to suggest Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be an Antiracist" and "Stamped from the Beginning" by the same author. I have just started reading the former, but already in the very first few chapters it is pointed out that being "a racist" isn't some trait of character that cannot be changed. You can act racist, meaning that you follow racist policies which lead to racial inequity. You can stop acting racist and start acting antiracist, supporting policies which lead to racial equity. You make the choice to start acting antiracist.

> I never understood why more minorities (not just race) don’t move here. But they don’t.

Challenge: try harder to understand. One starting point: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/racist-history-portland/492035/

Perhaps it is a result of loads of white people who are "liberal" out of convenience (who wants to go against the grain?) and then do zero work in investigating their own racism. https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414

Since our society is very racist, if someone is not actively being anti-racist, then they're contributing to the problem. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

Aw thanks! That’s great to hear. I gotta say, I came at this understanding of stuff primarily through reading and listening to really smart folks of color talk about it. If you’re interested here are a few: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4711777/user-clip-musical-difference-deficient

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/643832/notes-of-a-native-son-by-james-baldwin/

Joanna Brooks's book Mormonism and White Supremacy is a thoroughly documented, well-researched look at EXACTLY how the church became 100% A-OK with white supremacy: it was part of the silent agreement with white, mainstream America to let Mormons be accepted as "normal" and "wholesome" instead of "different" and "weird".

It let them trade their reputation as a polygamous frontier sex cult for legitimacy as a white Christian American institution. Think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (which has a weekly radio show that reaches millions of people), the Osmonds, and the whole "Homefront" PSA ad series ("Isn't it about... time?")

In return, white mainstream America got one more religion they could point to that reinforced the idea that black people were not created equal. And that agreement enshrined white supremacy into the fabric of Mormonism (and America) and let Mormons claim "white innocence": we don't know why God did it this way, but it's not our fault.

I have been out for a few years and thought I knew the depth of the rabbit hole when it comes to racist statements by church leaders. I was 100% wrong, and it is both fascinating and horrifying to learn the details that Brooks lays out.

If you're the kind of person that, unlike the person who wrote the post in the image, acknowledges white privilege, and wants to move past white innocence (or ignorance) and become an antiracist, this book is a great place to start in a Mormon context.

EDIT: Also, according to Ibram X. Kendi (Stamped from the Beginning, How To Be An Antiracist) any idea that claims there are differences between races is a racist idea. In this case, specifically an anti-black racist idea. This person is arguing originalism, which basically means "it's God's fault".

>!reposted from elsewhere!< Reminder that Kendi is an idiot. It's bizarre seeing him elevated into a position of intellectual, treated as an actually reasoning person; he's not mentally impaired, not below average, and can produce coherent blather to the effect of "white man bad" expanded to article length, but he is shockingly dim for a man endowed with Guggenheim fellowship and media support and... Or maybe not; I'm of the mind that this is the very point of such institutions, of Guggenheims and Pulitzers, of large swathes of modern academia, even – to earn authority with timely recognition of true (and fairly obvious) brilliance, and then elevate harmful fools once you have the critical visibility and financial backing and benefit of the doubt.

I actually downloaded his book «How to Be an Antiracist» to mine one quote. The blurb:

> From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
> Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America—but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
> In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.

Cool. Okay. Here's the quote:

I STOOD IN THE doorframe, sometime in March 2002. Clarence probably sensed another argument coming. We were tailor-made to argue against each other. Intensely cynical, Clarence seemed to believe nothing. Intensely gullible, I was liable to believe anything, a believer more than a thinker. Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers. [...]

I DID NOT knock on Clarence’s door that day to discuss Welsing’s “color confrontation theory.” Or Diop’s two-cradle theory. He had snickered at those theories many times before. I came to share another theory, the one that finally figured White people out.

“They are aliens,” I told Clarence, confidently resting on the doorframe, arms crossed. “I just saw this documentary that laid out the evidence. That’s why they are so intent on White supremacy. That’s why they seem to not have a conscience. They are aliens.”

Clarence listened, face expressionless.

“You can’t be serious.”

“I’m dead serious. This explains slavery and colonization. This explains why the Bush family is so evil. This explains why Whites don’t give a damn. This explains why they hate us so damn much. They are aliens!” I’d lifted off the doorframe and was in full argumentative mode.

“You really are serious about this,” Clarence said with a chuckle. “If you’re serious, then that has got to be the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life! I mean, seriously, I can’t believe you are that gullible.” The chuckle turned to a grimace.

“Why do you spend so much time trying to figure out White people?” he asked after a long pause. Clarence had asked this question before. I always answered the same way.

“Because figuring them out is the key! Black people need to figure out what we are dealing with!”

“If you say so. But answer me this: If Whites are aliens, why is it that Whites and Blacks can reproduce? Humans can’t reproduce with animals on this planet, but Black people can reproduce with aliens from another planet? Come on, man, let’s get real.”

“I am being real,” I replied. But I really had no comeback. I stood and turned around awkwardly, walked to my room, plopped down on my bed, and returned to staring at the ceiling. Maybe White people were not aliens. Maybe they became this way on earth. Maybe I needed to read more Frances Cress Welsing. I looked over at The Isis Papers on my nightstand.

—

BY THE FALL of 2003, Clarence had graduated and I decided to share my ideas with the world. I began my public writing career on race with a column in FAMU’s student newspaper, The Famuan. On September 9, 2003, I wrote a piece counseling Black people to stop hating Whites for being themselves. Really, I was counseling myself.

Props for self-awareness, I guess (this is in the section about Anti-White Racism, which to his credit he mostly acknowledges, unlike DiAngelo and her ilk). And the style is pretty good, if it's not a ghost writer – Kendi is less impressive in public.

But people don't change. Gullible men stay gullible, slow men stay slow. I gather he was 20 in 2002. Clarence, probably in the same ballpark. Clarence is a reasonable black guy who I hope had gained useful skills and made himself a productive member of the society. Kendi at 20 could contemplate that most people around him are hateful extraterrestrials, and became an anti-racist professor instead. Talk about meritocracy!

Ok. I’m game. A bunch of reading lists have been put out lately to start educating on this stuff, and there’s a bunch of overlap between them. This list seems to be the most condensed and has the majority of the ones the other lists recommend.

The three I’d recommend are:

• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I like the first one because it’s written by a reporter who has been covering these issues his entire career. He has been on the front lines of these issues, and has the research to back it up.

The second is great because it’s actionable ways to change how you interact with the world in meaningful (and less racist) ways. Look, I genuinely don’t consider myself a racist. I try to treat everyone with respect and dignity, and I’m sure you do too. But that’s not to say that I’ve always been perfect. I’ve told POC friends that they “sound white” on the phone, or said to one friend who was jamming out to Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA that she was the “whitest black girl I knew”. I didn’t mean for those things to be insensitive, but looking back now holy shit they really were. This book is a great resource for navigating this kind of stuff.

I like the third because it’s more introspective than anything else. It’s not so much a how-to guide as it as a way that one man reexamined his thoughts and behaviors.

I know you only asked for a book or two, but different things speak to different people so I figured I’d give you some options as to what you’re looking for. Hope these set you on the right path!

Read Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America or How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.

First, educate yourself about the issues. There are a lot of great books that came out this summer about anti-racism, like Ibram Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist. And for those who want a deeper dive and a more theological perspective, I’d commend Black liberation and womanist theologians like James Cone and his God of the Oppressed or Kelly Brown Douglas and her Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Does your church have a reading group for any of these texts? Join one! If not, suggest making one.

Second, if you can, get organized. Google your local anti-racist groups. If you’re white, Showing Up For Racial Justice has hundreds of chapters. See if your community has a mutual aid program. And of course, see what your local Black Lives Matter chapter is doing. Do you not like some things the national chapter has done? Great, lots of local chapters (including mine) don’t either, so figure out what your local chapter does and believes. There are many more, so just do your homework to find one that’s right for you.

If you can’t be regularly involved in an organization, that’s totally understandable. There are other ways to show up. At least subscribe to their mailing list or follow them on social media. Then you can see what events are occurring in your locality. Join a protest. Join some other form of direct action. If you have time, give it. If you have money, consider giving that too.

A word about politics. Many anti-racist activists and organizations don’t have much faith in national electoral politics. Many see both parties supporting racist policies. If you do see one side as less racist than the other, there’s no harm in taking one hour a year to vote. In fact, many of the most harmful racist policies happen on the local level. Things like affordable housing, education, homeless services, worker protections, etc. are all racial issues decided on the local level. Your vote or your dollars for city councilperson or county commissioner might go much farther than those for president. And more of the action usually occurs in the primary election than the general election. Stay up to date on local issues. It’s easier than ever to watch your local city council meetings, for example, and sign up to make a public statement over Zoom.

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (or anything by him, really)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum (an updated classic)

Not really pedagogy-related, but essential, imho: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

>cultural-marxist isn't even a term

Your unfamiliarity with a term doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

>But who is this widely influential person/group on the left saying equality is racist?

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/

https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414

Those are currently the #3 and #4 sellers on Amazon.

>What does this have to do with Marxism

Critical theory is literally a part of Marxist philosophy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

https://www.iep.utm.edu/frankfur/

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1314S/PHIL/PHIL-366-1314S

>what does this have to do with your average left voter who isn't even close to Marxist in social, economic and political views?

If millions of people start adopting these doctrines, this is no longer an accurate statement.

Whether you intended it or not, your post is a very clear-cut example of racism. It is itself an example of a microaggression. I am assuming you are an adult with access to the internet, so I have to ask why you have not done even the bare minimum amount of work to educate yourself? For example, simply reading the wikipedia entry on microaggressions would be a good start. Refusing to do any work yourself and demanding that others pick you up and bodily carry you over the ground to the finish line of anti-racism, means that you are heavily valuing your own ignorance and your own biases, and that is objectively racist. You should do better, and this sort of behavior should not just be tolerated as though it is consequence free. It forces others to do all of the work to push stubborn passive racists out of their comfort zones instead of demanding that everyone be expected to do even the bare minimum of work (such as reading or even skimming a relevant wikipedia entry).

If you require more resources, here are some of the top results from Amazon's list of best selling books in Discrimination & Racism, I suggest you read at least one of them:

• White Fragility
• How To Be An Antiracist
• Stamped From the Beginning
• So You Want To Talk About Race
• The Color of Law

>Your unfamiliarity with a term doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Cite it then, prove me wrong. Can't even tell if you're talking about cultural Marxism or Cultural Marxism because of how poorly you are using these terms.

No substance, even when pressed.

But who is this widely influential person/group on the left saying equality is racist?

>https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/
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>https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414

And where are they calling equality racist? You're providing literally no substance to your argument, even when pressed.

>Critical theory is literally a part of Marxist philosophy
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
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>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
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>https://www.iep.utm.edu/frankfur/
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>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1314S/PHIL/PHIL-366-1314S

You're quoting something to do with a very specific interpretation of Marxism... how is this relevant to Marxism as a whole?

So largely irrelevant, but thanks for expanding your view, even if your goal posts have been altered.

>If millions of people start adopting these doctrines, this is no longer an accurate statement

Citation for these "millions"

Again, no substance, even when pressed.

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Substantiate your views please. Citations, not links. I shouldn't have to dig around to substantiate your views for you if you're making these points.

The connected child (there are also lots of resources from Karyn Purvis and TCU that can be found on their website. We purchased the digital version of their videos and found it to be worth the money. Looks a bit dated, but the info is top notch.)

How to talk so kids will listen (there are also more versions for various ages, but this is a good place to start.)

The Whole-Brain child

The body keeps the score

The lost children of wilder

Beyond Consequences, logic, and control

So you want to talk about race

How to be an antirascist

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You might also look into baby-care classes or resources. Tiny babies are weird and caring for them can be a trip. There are lots of resources out there that can help you with understanding baby schedules, sleep, feeding, and all those little things that seem like they should be easy but aren't if you've never done it before.