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Home | Resources | United Methodists Stand Against Racism | Critical Conversations with Laity: A Step Towards Standing Against Racism Training

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

*What is Privilege? Simulation

Other Resources

  • * Privilege Self-Assessment
  • * The Privilege of Not Understanding Privilege (from Psychology Today)
  • Richard Rohr on White Privilege (Sojouners article by Rev. Ramal J. Tune)

*Deconstructing White Privilege (from GCORR)

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

* Allegories on Race and Racism (TED talk by Dr. Camara Jones)

Other Resources

  • * Undoing Racism – By Design (Blog Post by Cynthia Silva Parker)
  • Understanding Racism 101 (Article by Deborah Plummer, PhD)

UMC Bishops Against 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

TED talk by author Ibram X. Kendi: The Difference Between Being “Nonracist” and "Antiracist"

Other Resources

  • A collection of articles, questions, and TED talks by Ibram X. Kendi (antiracism) and by Verna Myers (on bias)—all provided by the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI)--an online self-assessment tool designed to provide you with information on your effectiveness in eradicating racism by Deborah L. Plummer, PhD

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.

 

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