Systemic Racism - On All Fronts

 

Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier, becomes first Black major league baseball player (1947)

 

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

Jackie Robinson

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This is the first of UUs seven principles.

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Frederick Douglass - What is the Fourth Of July to me?

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Not until we no longer have to make a point to say "Black Lives Matter" will all Americans be truly free and independent. Unitarian Univeralists covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. No exceptions.

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III | The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery

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Systemic racism - Schooling

At First Universalist Church of Rochester, NY, the social action committee has chosen racism as their focus for action this year, 2019 - 2020.

Educating ourselves about racism is a daunting challenge because most of systemic racism is unconscious to the people who benefit from it.

Today, we are starting a feature called "Systemic racism" which will highlight some of the forms that racism takes.

There are many forms of systemic racism and perhaps one of the major forms is how racism plays out in our schooling system. 59 years ago this month, schools were forcibly integrated in the Jim Crow south of the United States. You can learn a little bit about this by clicking here.

New Systemic Racism discussion group forming. Join today.

Systemic racism is a group to study and discuss aspects of systemic racism in the various domains in our society including health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, citizen participation, culure and sports, housing, employment, and social relations. The group is intended to facilitate sociological study and while prejudice and discrimination may be discussed, the major emphasis is how values and practices get embedded in social dynamics in society at what are usually unconscious patterns of behavior.


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