Transformative possibilities are my only hope
From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark […]
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The victor wrote our history
From “Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–and How to Repair It All” by Lisa Sharon Harper We
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It is just not the case
From “Black and White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship At A Time” by Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick Some are tempted
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Types of Privilege
From “Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice” by Kerry Connelly White privilege means that even though your
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The visible and the invisible
From “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit” by Parker J.
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This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived
From “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity” by Robert P. Jones After decades of regional
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Speak Up
From “Becoming Brave: Finding The Courage To Pursue Racial Justice Now” by Brenda Salter McNeil Now more than ever, those
We think we have “arrived”
From “White Fragility: What It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo None of the
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Living in different worlds
From “Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times” by Amanda Henderson – Chalice Press Yet as I wallowed in grief,
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The strong preference of whites for “Indian removal”
From “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future” by Robert P. Jones By
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Impact later in life
From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices
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We’re all not safe in the land of the free.
From “All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – And Hard Pills to Swallow – About Making Black Lives
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Defining Privilege
From “Filled to Be Emptied: The Path to Liberation for Privileged People” by Brandan Robertson – Westminster John Knox Press
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Proximity without a process
From “Living Into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America” by Catherine Meeks Physical proximity to one another can provide diverse
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Recovering the vocation of truth telling
From “The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy” by Jim Wallis The vocation of
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Dismally unaware
From “Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race” by Willie Dwayne Francois III White noise keeps
Scapegoat theory
From “Scapegoats: The Gospel Through the Eyes of Victims” by Jennifer Garcia Bashaw My task in this book relies on
The Internal Family Systems model
From “Telling Stories in the Dark: Finding healing and hope in sharing our sadness, grief, trauma, and pain” by Jeffrey
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When we don’t know what we don’t know, at first we see only what we expect to see
From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney When we first suspect we
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Why I Went to the Border
From “The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border” by Cristina Rathbone The story that
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Testosterone, Aggression, and Mating
From “Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human” by Guy Leschziner One very easy answer to this question is
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