racism and white privilege in small town america
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Racism and white privilege in small town America
McGovern Center for Leadership and Public ServiceDakota Wesleyan University28 September 2016
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growing up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Growing up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Popular culture as I was growing up…
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College…
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think about “race” — when did that word first become part of your vocabulary? what did it mean? who taught you? how has it changed over time?
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If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters,and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:26
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loving each other in the midst of our deep differences is never going to be easy
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The problem with colorblindness is that we are not color blind with regard to race, indeed, we not only “see” it but we use it – often implicitly, without conscious thought, to structure how we interact with each other.
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“White skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose. Unlike the more overt individual and institutional manifestations of racism … white skin privilege is a transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society. White skin privilege serves several functions. First, it provides white people with “perks” that we do not earn and that people of color do not enjoy. Second, it creates real advantages for us. White people are immune to a lot of challenges. Finally, white privilege shapes the world in which we live — the way that we navigate and interact with one another and with the world.”
Holladay
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“white skin privilege is a transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society”
Holiday
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being white becomes normalized
if you do not “look white” you are marked as “different”
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what’s the difference between a name and a label?
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“Second, [white privilege] creates real advantages for us. White people are immune to a lot of challenges.”
Holiday
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“white privilege shapes the world in which we live — the way that we navigate and interact with one another and with the world”
Holladay
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Bigotry + power = racism as interpersonal practice.
Disparities created and/or exacerbated by societal institutions
= racism as institutional practice.
Normalization and legitimization that routinely confers advantages on whites, while producing
chronic adverse outcomes for others = racism as structural practice.
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Race is a social construct — we can deconstruct it!
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get proximate change the narratives
cultivate resilience through hope embrace discomfort
Stevenson
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listen, really listen
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change the narratives
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“As Americans, we have a “theological” national story we tell about our country. It begins with the Constitution and typically describes the constant progress that good people have made since the start. It’s a relentlessly positive story.”
Jones
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“From a spiritual perspective, the problem is that this story has not incorporated a serious account of our wrongs. ... The clearest example of this is our failure to sufficiently deal with our two most obviously horrific wrongs—the carefully orchestrated genocide of Native Americans and the 300-year-long story of the most brutal social system ever created, chattel slavery.”
Jones
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“Why is this absence a spiritual problem? There is no religious or spiritual tradition, at least any worth their salt, that does not begin with a serious account of both the good and bad that people can do. There are many names for the negative side of human existence, such as sin, evil, illusion, moral absence, iniquity, transgression and negative karma. All recognize that human beings, alone and collectively, can do really bad things. This doesn’t mean we don’t have a good side. But these stories insist that if we do not existentially reckon with the ugly side of our beliefs and actions, we will not have healthy communities. Egregious harms will continue to unfold and profound despair and alienation inevitably set in. Why? Because deep down, we are living a spiritual lie.”
Jones
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Learn the history of social movements
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listen deeply change the narratives ally with a truer story
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get proximate change the narratives
cultivate resilience through hope embrace discomfort
Stevenson
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embrace discomfort move towards healing
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more ideas are to be found on the handout
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Mary E. Hess Keenan Visiting Chair in Religious Education University of St. Michael’s College Toronto, ON
meh.religioused.org http://www.slideshare.net/maryhess1/
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text citations
On Racism and White Privilege Jennifer Holladay
How to Heal the Spiritual Pain of America Serene Jones
Just Mercy, and 4 Steps to Change the World Bryan Stevenson
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video links
Proud to Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-tbOxlhvE
Systemic Racism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPVXdjJCkCA
We Shall Remain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0iwY6YjSk
5 Tips for Being an Ally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0
The Human Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztMfBZvZF_Y
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image citations
Jesus Takes a Selfie https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153785383611727&set=a.10150239991551727.318146.659866726&type=3&theater
MLK, Jr. quotation http://www.thefreshquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/I-Have-A-Dream-That-My-Four-Little-Children-Will-One-Day-Live-In-A-Nation-Where-They-Will-Not-Be-Judged-By-The-Color-Of-Their-Skin-But-By-The-Content-Of-Their-Character.-»-Martin-Luther-King-Jr..jpg
Got privilege? https://afreshvoiceblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/wp-1454321991075.jpg
Brady Bunch http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2009/09/29/bradybunch3__1254231911_1125-2.jpg
Good Times http://d236bkdxj385sg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/times2005.jpg
Tiger Beat https://superradnow.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tumblr_lsqnn3bitq1qzdza2o1_500.jpg
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image citations
The McGoverns http://airportjournals.com/wp-content/uploads/0605004_6.jpg
Civil Rights Movement http://www.spiritedsocialchange.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/marchjobs.jpg
Cognitive biases https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Cognitive_Bias_Codex_-_180%2B_biases%2C_designed_by_John_Manoogian_III_%28jm3%29.jpg
Protect Our Water http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/08/19/gettyimages-587636528_custom-8c05f831b3d3d2696526016ada176144c3ee74fa-s900-c85.jpg
Got Hope http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/got_hope_postcard-r9b57eef35e0d4b918d767f7c3a8184a1_vgbaq_8byvr_324.jpg
All others from Mary Hess