UNITED METHODISTS STAND AGAINST RACISM

Critical Conversations with Laity: A Step Towards Standing Against Racism Training

East Ohio Conference laity participated in this important training on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Rev. Dr. Michelle Ledder from the General Commission on Religion & Race and EOC laity shared from their perspectives during the event.

Below are resources arranged by topic.

Privilege

White Fragility

• * How Can You Tell if You Have White Fragility?
• * White People Assume that Niceness is the Answer to Racial Inequality. It's Not.

Racism

African-American Women and the Suffragette Movement

• * Votes for Women Mean Votes for Black Women (from the National Women’s History Museum)

Anti-Racism

Celebrating Juneteenth

• A collection of articles and videos commemorating the African American holiday as provided by PBS

Microaggressions

• How to Respond to Microaggressions (from the NY Times)

Racial Disparities

• Go LIVE for Equity: Four, hour-long panel discussions produced by the Cleveland YWCA in May 2020

1. Pandemic Points to Racism Being a Public HealthCrisis
2. Defending Our Democracy in a Pandemic
3. Separate and Not Equal: Education in the Face of COVID-19
4. Criminal Justice: Sentenced to COVID-19

Race & The Church in 2020 - A Discussion with United Methodist Bishops

A panel discussion hosted by Hip-Politics and including Bishops Cynthia Fierro Harvey, Cynthia Moore-
Koikoi, Gregory Palmer, Julius Trimble, and LaTrelle Easterling. (Timestamps below)

• 5:31        Intro of Panel
• 9:11        Question 1: Role of the Church in leading and supporting the current racial justice issues in America
• 17:33      Question 2: Bridging racial divide in the churches of America
• 31.53      Question 3: Place of bishops to weigh-in on political environment in an election year
• 44.02      Question 4: Bridging digital divide
• 58.42      Final words from panel participants

 

*Some selected resources taken, with thanks, from the YWCA of Greater Cleveland’s 21 Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenges, 2019 and 2020.