Pacific School of Religion: 2015 Orientation on Race
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These are the slides that I used during my presentation with the Pacific School of Religion's orientation time about race. Focused on microaggressions, this is an entry point to have conversations about race that I believe are essential to experiencing the beauty and complexity of race today. (September, 2015, Berkeley, CA)
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- 10. psronrace @breyeschow assumption 2: the multicultural destination Multiculturalism will always and only be window dressing unless the culture is intentionally, excruciatingly, and consistently diverse.
- 11. psronrace @breyeschow assumption 3: aspirational and evident Race work is aspirational, big picture, and systematic as well as concrete, specific, and personal.
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- 23. psronrace @breyeschow Jesus was like . . .
- 24. psronrace @breyeschow Jesus was like . . .
- 25. psronrace @breyeschow Jesus was like . . .
- 26. psronrace @breyeschow Jesus was like . . .
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- 30. psronrace @breyeschow As with most difficult conversations, our initial reaction is to find ways not to have them well. la, la, la, i can’t hear you
- 31. psronrace @breyeschow One person's being “politically correct” is another person's remembering that “words have power and can impact others more than you know.” we dismiss
- 33. psronrace @breyeschow Even A-Rod has a mother. we demonize
- 34. psronrace @breyeschow We romanticize youth culture in a way that leads to abdicating our role in raising up the next generation or justice seekers. we romanticize
- 35. psronrace @breyeschow We are patronizing and condescending towards newly realized justice seekers -- often in order to hold onto power and status. we patronize
- 36. psronrace @breyeschow We fetishize and observe as spectacle instances of racism allowing us to distance ourselves from the realities of race. we festishize
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- 40. psronrace @breyeschow Lets take a break.
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- 47. psronrace @breyeschow “Why do you always sit together?” microagressions
- 48. psronrace @breyeschow “He’s a different kind of Black.” microagressions
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- 52. psronrace @breyeschow microagressions “It’s hard being white.”
- 53. psronrace @breyeschow sitting in the front row
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