Karen Buys leading, 13 participants
“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” - Foreword, Introduction, Chapter “The Challenges of Talking to White People about Racism"
I liked this cover note on the book by Claudia Rankine (poet, author, playwright) - “A necessary book for all people invested in societal change”
The positives and negatives of “Identity Politics” were discussed. Karen provided a very long, and complicated, definition for this. [see the Author’s Note]
Karen asked, “How is institutional racism upheld by individual racism?”
Our homework was to assess our reactions and respond to the question, “What does discomfort do for you?"
On Thursday after our meeting, Karen sent out this note:
I saw this article today and it’s a helpful look at just how many “microaggressions” teenagers face on a daily basis. I put the term in quotation marks because while the incidents are generally small, the effect they have is anything but small.
Peace,
— Duncan Taylor