Conversations on Race
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There are slides from my presentation on RACE at the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ Annual Celebration held at the La Foret Conference & Retreat Center in Black Forest, CO.
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Conversations on Race
- 1. RACE. Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018 RM Conference Annual Celebration www.slideshare.net/breyeschow
- 2. FORMATIVE HISTORY Chinese Exclusion Act (1965) Miscegenation Laws (1967) Farmworkers Strikes (1965)
- 4. RACE AND POLITICS Empty Chair #blacklivesmatter Police Shootings #sayhername Immigration
- 5. We all have assumptions. Here are mine. ASSUMPTIONS brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 6. The church must not only be a safe place to talk about race, it must also be a place where the complex beauty of the created is yearned for and made real. THE CHURCH brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 7. Multiculturalism will always and only be window dressing unless the culture is intentionally, excruciatingly, and consistently diverse. MULTICULTURAL brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 8. The examination of racism cannot be done in the absence of also examining the realities of sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc. INTERSECTIONAL brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 9. Work around race that is whole and just is aspirational, big picture, and systematic. It is also concrete, specific, and personal. THE JOURNEY brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 10. How is racism impacting the ministry you serve and/or the community in which you live? What events, people, circumstances have shaped and formed your racial identity? How do you understand or experience intersectionality? What are your greatest gifts and greatest obstacles in your personal engagement in fighting racism?
- 11. What commonalities did you hear: struggles, successes, perspectives? What do you want to affirm that you heard in your group? Any “aha” moments? Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018 GROUP SHARING What did you hear?
- 12. White People Talking About Race https://youtu.be/xXow7olFyIM
- 13. Pretending that a problem doesn’t exist doesn’t mean that the problem doesn’t exist. AVOIDANCE brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 14. Privilege allows us choose to avoid talking about race. Conversations about race only easier by having more of them. We miss out on the possibilities that may be on the other side of the tensions when we don’t talk about race. PRIVILEGE brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 15. We assume relationships will break if we have hard conversations. We fear that we may not be heard, believed, or understood. The more we talk, the more likely that we might change in our beliefs and/or behavior. FEAR brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 16. Relationships are strengthened through moving through conflict. Our understanding and experience of the world is expanded. We gain a broader understanding of God’s hopes and intentions for us and the world. POSSIBILITIES brc assumptions Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 17. As with most difficult conversations, our initial reaction is to find ways not to have them well. NOOOOOOOOO! having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 18. One person's being “politically correct” or “too sensitive” is another person's remembering that words have power and can impact others more than one knows. WE DISMISS having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 19. We use our “intentions” as a way to deny or minimize our impact. WE DENY having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 20. We fetishize and observe as spectacle instances of racism allowing us to distance ourselves from the repercussions of racism. WE FETISHIZE having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 21. In an effort to show solidarity we shift focus away from those impacted and re-center the focus on us. WE DE-CENTER having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 22. “...the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.” ‘60 “...a riot is the language of the unheard. The Other America” ‘68 “...many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life. ‘56 WE DILUTE having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 23. We romanticize youth culture in a way that leads to abdicating our role in raising up the next generation of justice seekers. WE ROMANTICIZE having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 24. We are patronizing and condescending towards newly realized justice seekers -- often in order to hold onto power, status, and wealth. WE PATRONIZE having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 25. We often allow self-care and disengagement to turn into privileged abdication, inaction, and apathy. WE RETREAT having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 26. When we strip anyone of their humanity, we do damage to the body as a whole. WE DEHUMANIZE having the conversations Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018
- 27. What are ways you can be a better host and participant in conversations about race and racism? What do think you are the biggest deterrents to having conversations about race: you, your community, etc.? Describe positive experiences of talking about racism. What are ways your community can be a better hosts and participant in conversations about race and racism?
- 28. What commonalities did you hear: struggles, successes, perspectives? What do you want to affirm that you heard in your group? Any “aha” moments? Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow #rmcac2018 GROUP SHARING What did you hear?