Category: Social Justice

Please join us on Sunday (13 June 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 10 — “White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement.”  We will explore ways in which our group covenants can sometimes reinforce norms of white supremacy culture and what we can do to avoid that.

As you’ll recall, we began this current conversation looking at our All Souls Covenant of Right Relations.

In light of this chapter and what we’ve learned throughout our exploration of the book, we will revisit our covenant through an anti-racist lens.

Are there portions that we would rewrite?  If so, how?

Please join us on Sunday (6 June 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 9 — “White Fragility in Action.”  We will explore the the various ways in which white people employ the “How dare you” response to any suggestion they may be complicit in racism.

We will look at a number of the faulty assumptions often made by white people conditioned by white supremacy culture and think about effective ways we might speak back to those in others and ourselves.

Please join us on Sunday (30 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 8 — “The Result: White Fragility.”  We will explore the way that white fragility — by turning the narrative around to portray white people as victimized — can ultimately be a form of bullying.

We will explore ways to recognize and interrupt that response in ourselves and others.

Please join us on Sunday (23 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 7 — “Racial Triggers for White People.”

We will explore some of the road blocks of defensiveness that can prevent white people from engaging in honest conversations about race or dealing with challenges to their own racial identity and position.

Please join us on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 6 — “Anti-Blackness.”

While it can be helpful and necessary to speak in generalizations about white people and interrupt the hyper-individualist mindset, that same type of generalization can be damaging to people of color as it may trivialize the different patterns of racism that each group experiences.

In this chapter, DiAngelo explores the uniquely anti-black pattern of racism that has been integral to white identity, the idea of black people as “the ultimate racial other” and how that is the underlying foundation of white fragility.

The adult religious education class will not meet this Sunday (9 May 2021 — Mother’s Day) but will resume on the following Sunday (16 May 2021).

On 16 May 2021, we will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

Please join us on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 5 — “The Good/Bad Binary.”

White people often buy into the notion that “since only bad people are racist, and I am a good person, I have no complicity in racism and no responsibility to work on dismantling it.”

How do we move away from that kind of thinking into a more constructive mindset?

We have one additional copy of this book available if anyone else needs a copy.  And we can also order more if needed.