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Reclaiming Our Common Humanity: We are all born as beautiful human beings. Race is a pseudo-science. Racism is how we are acculturated, not our natural state of being.
We will explore how to get off the sidelines and get living an anti-racist life: reclaiming our common humanity. How can we use the learnings from the recovery movement to inform how to look at and address the framework that keeps systemic racism in place?
A promise we made this Spring was to stay in the exploration of how to care for our neighbors and grow together. By exploring systemic racism’s roots and remedies, we hope to inspire people to move from simply not being a racist, which does little to dismantle racism, to actively living an anti-racist life and becoming an ally to the Black community.
What could be the “12-Step” program to move from separation to common humanity? Step 1: acknowledge that racism exists.
Conveners: Kelly Chatman, Craig Neal, Terry Chapman
Addressing Systemic Racism as a Recovery Movement
Addressing Systemic Racism as a Recovery Movement
