August 2-8, 2004
(All my friends and neighbors)
(Meggie is sweaty and pumped for youth council)
(People are tired maybe they need to get to bed earlier)
Resolutions need to be done by 7pm Thursday
Lack of respect for DYSC
Their web site was hacked in to by an old con go-er
Held a LDC (love youth office)
They had decide to never have a con in PA in December
Increasing communications about events
Both their disks (old and new) met and talked about positives and deltas and how to work on them
CAC (con affairs committee) (deal with breaking rules
No AR this year but will be having an AR con in January 2005
Had a AR work shop at their election con
Younger crowd
YAC is mostly under 18
Breaking down in communication
Canceling cons because of not having churches booked
There age range may be changing to 14-20 \
Massachusetts Bay
They had 5 cons
At second con they did YCR selections
No having cons in Malden too much snow
They had an LDC (had problems with advisors and there behavior)
They had a really successful SAC con
Massive con (resistance to AR work, advisors behavior)
Next year want to do a SDC and AR conference
Advisors taking control of meetings being disempowering
Had a SAC con (did workshop about homelessness)
Elected new YAC
Had a problem with distrust with youth
Youth want co-ed sleeping areas and adults don’t want
Youth are trying to come up with solutions
Adults do not want it to happen and are holding process up
Had AR training
Hold 2 large cons fall and spring (250-+ people)
They have smaller “clusters” which are small groups that lead smaller conference
Gold mine (youth leader ship camp) (people from other districts can go)
Youth work camp (UU youth and muckle shout youth) if successful hope to do more in the future
6 cons
Not a lot of problems
Problems with not having a spirit committee meeting when they feel they should have
Had a good bridging con
Now they have 5 chaplains (both youth and young adults)
Maybe having a SDC in 2005
Also may have a AR con or SAC con
AL and Sean worked a lot so there was at least 1 SAC workshop
Mookie is trying to work with YAC bringing things from local to district
Had to let go of a couple of their disk reps
How to further incorporate their adults in their district
Maybe changing the name of the district
Central and eastern Canada
YAC is having trouble with
Large (land mass
Not enough money
Hard to communicate with local youth
Communication issues
No social justice done yet
SAC has disappeared
YAC is really tying to have at least one con in this coming year
They had the Quam con
Elect YAC
St. Laurence district cons
Had an Advisor trainer
Had problems with YAC
No communication with each other
Low attendance due to no flyers
No Bonding activities
The web site person was feeling unheard so dropped off YAC
Last YCR has been MIA
They have a new website
Going to be sending out flyers to churches
People will be going to churches to Hype Cons
Little attendance to cons
Need more adults to come to cons
YAC 19 people
Fears not having younger youth not wanting
Board will be revising the Youth and young adult relationships
Made before looking at YRUU’s policy
Having a large con that includes
No AR work
For the
Energy break
called @ 10:30 am
“Gigolo”
Lot of problems with rule violations
2 major violations at SDC LDC
Big 4 a problem
But trying to work on skits to solve
Spirit Committee at all rallies and chaplains
YAC is revising their election process because of under qualified people running for positions
There are 5 dates broken up between the regions
They are trying to clarify what it means to be on YAC with binders and notes explaining Job
Jedi Program-Older experienced youth helping younger youth
Looking for a TAR to head up the Jedi Program
AR con was small but people who went got a lot out of it
Working on another one with more people
Problem was that it was right after a rally
9 cons
Each con is run by local youth group funded by the district
There were 6 all age cons 12-20
2 Transition in cons 12-14, which are introductions to cons
1 social action con but it wasn’t very social action oriented
No Anti-Racism or Anti-Oppression no diversity
YCR would like to work on creating more diversity.
District Board wants the YAC to go to the AGM
But it conflicts with the election con and there is no youth programming at the AGM
There are 9 more scheduled for this year
Lost the website because of a buyout but then bought it back
DYSC is called RYSC
A bunch of members were voted in last October.
Newsletter is up and running and looks awesome!
Working on email list serves
Only one regional conference a year
Upcoming conference has a junior high con as well as a LDC
AR/AO there were workshops at the election and at the LDC there will be a component of AR/AO there too
3 senior high cons
1 junior high con
1st overall conference size small
Might be due to a higher registration fee
Cons ended up being on the same weekends as holidays
Social Action conference grew quite a bit
New SAC and Chair
Held and LDC went great
High level of tension between Youth and Adults
Many rules broken
Having problems with cliques and popularity vs. leadership
AR/AO little
Problems with Communication between YCR and district and old YCR
Trying out the cluster model
2 YAC events
Summer elections
Website is hopeful
Financially set
The future of YAC is safe
Did some AR work
Movie
People look at cons as a hang out time
Made up of white people mostly
Advisor training in Oct.
Trying to connect with Canada
Not allowed to give them money
Social action has not been happening
Joint YAC meeting somewhere
Youth adult relationships really good
The relationships between YRUU and the congregations is not as good
People were tense at the last con because the church it was held at was very touchy
Social action work was food drives and clothing drives
AR/AO is not very good
3 Cons a year 150-200 people @ each con
Running well
Working on a Con manual to help churches plan a con
Thinking about holding and LDC and a SDC
Worried about costs
Had some problems with drugs at last con
Sex Death Squad looks for people having sex and doing other bad things
Interim DYSC
Interim YCR
Very first election con coming up in December
Having problems with the district youth consultant
Having problems with youth empowerment
Finally pushing their way through
AR/AO is not a main focus but after the DYSC is set there will be hardcore planning
Social action is a biggy at cons
No bylaws
District has not been quite as supportive as hoping
Working on a project to bring a youth caucus to district events
Cons are great with very few problems
Out reach program right now to get more youth involved
Adults at Large have been great
Communications are poor
Mistrust between the adults and the rules
Due to a sexual assault at the bridging con last year
Trying to fix through group discussions on a local and district level
The issues of mistrust seem to be dissolving
A couple of the new rules have been affecting the community in a negative way
There is a district rule change committee
New website! And there is a District Newsletter
Communications officer has been doing a good job
There has been much about bridging the gap between YA and youth
Outreach to Texas and Montana
They now attend con
There was a Junior Senior conference held in Montana which was good
13 Cons
3 Social action cons
4 cluster junior high retreats
Week long summer con
And junior high senior high retreat
And an advisor training in Bozeman
No AR/AO
Trouble with elections
Got a SAC
LDC in the fall, which was a success but a problem with a youth leader
A ginger bread-making workshop for fundraising
Wasn’t too successful and there was trouble selling some of the houses
7 principle T-Shirts was another fundraiser
11 people going to cunoodle
Plans for an SDC in the fall
For spring con 2005 there was trouble finding a youth group
BC YAC is going to organize
Joint meeting in Victoria BC
PNWD YAC chair took full chair
Communication issues
Coffee houses have been other fundraisers
YAC has made final steps to the emergency system task force
Revised many of the Bylaws
Advisor Training
1st YAC meeting was canceled due to poor planning
1st con was Social action con
Set calendar for the rest of the year
Supposed to be an SDC but it didn’t go through
Discussed Youth adult relations at YAC meetings
Large focus is on Youth Events Manual
March small con Consumption
April Contemplation
First youth led AR workshop
May Last High school youth con of the year
June Junior High Con
Southern Poverty Law center led a workshop at con
Trying to strengthen AR/AO
And working on youth empowerment
A website is new and a Spirituality Development coordinator
Biggest con at the beginning and smallest was at the end
Only 40 at the election con due to poor outreach
Advertise more to get more people
They need to update their list serve
Con staff was elitist
A few people have been in the same positions
Need new leaders
AR/AO was not so great
Social Justice Con Concern was good but only twenty went
Some youth said they have noticed change in Anti Oppressive language
Hope for a solid AR/AO work
New cluster system
Hoping to beef it up
AGM many many accounts of youth disempowerment
AR/AO is not very great
SAC moved
Tried to have a SAC con but cancelled due to poor registration
Not very many people push for stuff at their district
Cons are well attended but the cons are very good
A lot of people view mandatory as lets go take a nap
Upwards of 200 people
YAC has been really bad with power dynamics and Youth Disempowerment
Spanking committee
A newsletter called Visions
Drug problems need help
Much more opportunities
Several largely attended AR cons
Great senior high camp
PSWD is getting more involved in continental YRUU
Large attendance to GA
3 our whole lives cons
Outreach to Arizona
SDC this year
Winter con on Social Justice
Several rule infractions executed by youth in leadership positions
Reformative Justice
Board resigned
No scholarships
Brainstorming possible ways to avoid these problems in the future
Elected by members of Youth Council
3 members are elected by PoCC
5 At large positions
18-20 Rep, 16-18 Rep, 14-16 Rep Bring the viewpoint of the age duuhhhhh………
Elections will be Sat during Plenary 6
Same jobs as at large
Share the work
Like a youth advisor
Support the SC
And brings an adult perspective
Process observe the group
All SC meetings as well as Youth Council
Not elected but the Youth office decides on using consensus
Research other organizations for reference
Strongly support the AR/AO work
Works with the SC as a member
Tries to offer the view of the Board of Trustee to the SC and tries to be a liaison
Covenant:
Description of a covenant- a promise with the community that we all create together and promise to with hold during our time together
Anti
Racism with Jenny, Clare and Chris
(ARTOP
and Challenging White Supremacy)
-Introductions
-Covenanting
-Group Culture
-Learning Zone
-Goals
-Building Common Analysis of linked Oppressions
-Resources
-Evaluations
Jenny introduces her self
Chris introduces what Challenging White Supremacy and the history of how it became
Clare talks about how she got involved with CWS
Step up step down
Challenging assumptions (ask non confrontational questions)
Stay at the table (be present)
Talk to each other
Engage in Conflict Lovingly
Share what is said (not who said it)
Get out of your comfort zone
Think out side the box
Right to pass
Challenge the statement and not the person
Be aware of power dynamics
Plus group covenant from plenary
Group Culture (dynamics)
Strive for equal participation from youth and adults
Wait 10 sec. Before talking (pop corn style)
White people asking POC to explain them selves and educate
How do you know when you have gone in to these zones?
Comfort zone
Bored, heard it all before
Feel safe
Routine
Agree with every thing
Muscles loose
Stop caring what is said
You’re in controlled
Growth zone
Afraid
Intimidated
Questioning
Excited
Inter act more
Stretching
Sit up more and you are alert
Heart races
Red zone
Angry
Defensive
Can’t communicate
Frustrated
Every one else is wrong
Clenching muscles
Melt down
Sadness
People write their personal goals
-A system of government based on money
-Oppressive power (People with lots of money over people with out money)
-Pawns in the system
-Works in with other systems
-Goal is profit
-Consumerism
-Rigid and controlled
-Had power over the “clay”
-Superior
-Ability to disapprove
-Masculinity
-Dominating power
-Nothing but what “I” said mattered
-Socially it is handed down to people
-Domination of white culture
Heterosexism (with a little emotion)
-Males are more arrogant
-Females are submissive
-Over-sexualized
-Plays in to patriarchy
-Close mindedness
-Assuming everyone is in heterosexual
Gender binary System
-Gender does not exists
-There is nothing past male and female
Group Sculpture of:
White Supremacy
-Had the power or did not have the power
-Not many POC were in it
-The POC who were in it were put in positions of powerless
-White folks with most of the power
-Some white folks stepped in and tried to “protect” the POC
Group Sculpture of:
Observation
Lots of white people taking over POC’s sculpture
Surrounding POC doing their own thing
People using the Black Power symbol (a symbol of the black power movement but was stolen by white folks)
Not many youth and young adults
All these systems are connected and support each other
The interaction of white folks doing liberation work and working with people of color and these all inter weave
Plenary 2 - Wednesday
Canada at large
They have a slightly larger RE budget
Conuudle went well
The radical religious people are helping pull together
Age rang issue they were told By the CUC that the age
range for the national conference
Continental Social Action Coordinator (C*SAC)
Have been defining their roll
Working
on a system where there would be chapters where district SAC’s organize the
local SAC’s
Sean- made some great connections at GA
Both- YSJC pre site was good
SAC-Pack is going to be done by YSJC
The first Regional YSJC is going to be in CMWD
Post High Transitional Age Range Representative (TARR)
Created a questionnaire to find out the needs of 18-22
5
sets of questions
Received 5 questioners back
Need to
have more transitioning
Re-think AR/AO programming
Junior High TARR
Clarification of position
From Heartland
Create a resource for junior high events
Help start junior high work in your district
Tried to have a JH welcoming circle at GA did not go so
well
Working Action Manager (WAM)
Education Reform and Multiculturalism
YSJC-Inner City Struggle did a great job
At GA did a lot of networking
Met
William Upskie Wimsatt
The SWAT PoAT is amazing
Education
reform
Un
schooling
Super Working Action Team (SWAT)
Working
on education reform and multiculturalism
Challenging- not many people know about the SWAT POT
Need a congregation to support the issue
Lifespan Learning (Canada)
Established a Youth advisory group
4 Reigns
Building Communication
Grateful for the YFUUD grant
Tim and Jessie went to the Conference
Sylvia made Tim an official CUC member Gave him a pin
Had SDC’s and LDC’s
UUA Youth Programs Director
We
got 30,000 dollars for Youth Advisor Hand Book and Youth group Hand Book (will
be printing soon)
Youth
advisor handbook has been re-printed
5 steps on how to higher a paid
youth advisor
Youth
group handbook will be coming out before GA 2005
Go
to the web site for great resources
Youth
office is with the Life Span faith development
Coming of age resource
Poetry resource to spared poetry
(social justice, etc.)
Talk to youth office about your ideas for new resources
Jesse is nervous because
Bill and Nada are watching
Jesse talks about budget
UUA (filled with nice people who need to be paid)
APF annual Program Fund (your church gives money to UUA)
Friends of the UUA- fund raising effort (on line you can
find out how to donate)
Just did a capital campaign that raised 35.2 million
UUA endowment
And large gifts
Talk to your parents about giving to youth programming
Story
time with Jesse (oh I love story time with Jessie)
Youth can pledge also
If your family have means talk about making a large gift
Youth Office
Money
Operating
budget
Capital campaign (bucket with money
in it and can use it for special Projects)
(not a real bucket)
YRUU
Money
(Can be used for scholarships, etc.)
Gets
money through events (Youth caucus, Con Con, etc.)
YRUU
checking account (small scale fund raising)
T-shirt
from GA
Are
we going to get back our 3 YPS? No time
soon
Capital Campaign
Used
money to support DRUUMM and youth and young adults of color
ARTOP
(Jason found an out side source from the UU Sunday School Society)
Utilizing
volenters to help get their work done
Also summer interns
In
the upcoming year
Keep
funding DRUUMM
Resource
development
Staff
Megan
and Jason were AMAZING
They did
so much and started so many new things
Nada Speaks
Worked with LRY (back in the day)
Why we had common ground
Myths
of LRY and its falling
There
was stress between adults and youth
The
scapegoat period; if there were any problems they were blamed on youth
The
youth thought that if you gave the youth all the money it would all be ok
Adults
checking out (not showing up)
The
Truth of LRY
Adults
were getting frustrated with the direction
There
were adults who were doing youth empowerment
Local
groups were in disarray
Youth
were doing organizing
Lots of things political and social justice
in the country
Adults
did show some times and they were shut down
Yes
there may have been nudity
Did
not have any formal training for advisors
Concuss shuts people up
Anti Racism
Defining Racism
Development of us racism
Institutional racism
Internalized racism
Allies
Evaluations
Siri does a reading
Common analysis
Picture
of person
It’s a
woman
Putting
down seeds
Child/youth
Pollution
Hope
Dark
ness falling on her
Comment about how people
assumed it was a woman
Next
picture
No
smoking
Racism = racial prejudice
+ institutional power
Development of U.S. Racism
Genocide- the
violence/intentional killing of people and a culture
Genocide
Japanese concentration
camps- during WWII took Japanese
Christopher Columbus
coming to America- landed in to the Caribbean and
Taking of children of
first nations taking and putting them in schools not teaching their native
langue
The sterilization of
women of color
Enslavement and slave labor
The abuse of Chinese
labor building labor
Prison/drug laws and how
they target people of color
The Patriot Act- putting
people of Arab decent in jail for no reason
Theft of land and resources
Manifest destiny-
Europeans puritans coming and spreading gods
will that they span from cotenant
to
save the native people from them self
Trail of tears- moving the native peoples away from their
land
The first time white came up referring to
people
-You could vote if you owned land
-You had a choice
-It also has manifested its self in other countries and
the colonization of them
White
The term white (people)
was created by Virginia Slave owners and colonial rulers in the (7th
century) it replaced terms like “Christians” and “Englishmen” to distinguish
European colonists from African and indigenous peoples. European colonial powers established
“whites” as a legal concept after Bacon’s rebellion in 1676 during which
indentured servants of European and African descent had united against the
colonial elite. The legal distinction
of “white” separated
The term People of Color
People of color in the
U.S. share the common experience of being targeted and oppressed by
racism. Unfortunately one of the ways
racism operates is to keep People of Color divided. Many people only think about their specific ethnic racial group
when discussing oppression or the need to keep political power. By using the term people of color, we begin
to push people to think more broadly.
We need to build relationships with other groups of color the term
people of color has movement building potential.
Western States Center
(Not a black white issue)
Universalizing White Experience
When “white” is presented
as standard/normal/good, people with white privilege internalize this
superiority and sense of being “normal”, viewing the world through that
lens. Images of leadership, beauty,
“average Americans” in institutions like schools, the media and popular
culture; presentations of history that foreground white figures and their
influence; and other ways in which whiteness is made central led to an
institutionalized standard of experience.
This phenomenon is often invisible to those who experience. This
phenomenon is often invisible to those who experience and protesting are the
right/best/only ways.”
Deracialization
Deracialization is to
remove an issue from its context, treating it in a way that does not recognize
the impact of racism or that reduces the propriety of directly challenging
those impacts. Deracialization an issue
restricts the self-determination of the people who are most impacted by that
issue to be defining their won struggle.
In a white supremacist society, all issues intersect with racism; the
privilege to reframe an issue with out understanding the impact of race is not
available.
Blinded by the White
Reinforced by
deracialized politics, this is a blindness of white activists to seeing and
understanding resistance coming from communities of color. 500+years of liberation struggles on this
continent have been led by people of color, from colonization on through
today. The backwards idea of
“recruiting” people of color into “the” movement, defined as white radical
struggle, ignores this historical and contemporary reality. Instead of “recruiting” people of color into
majority white organizations in an attempt to “diversify”, white social justice
activist can focus on participating in anti-racist struggle.
Contradictory Resistance
Non-ruling class white
people caught in the intersection of experiencing privilege and also
oppression, and so their resistance often expresses this contradiction:
protesting that which oppresses while fighting to maintain privilege. Along racial lines, this often has
maintained privilege. Along racial
lines, this often has manifested as white activists sacrificing long-term
strength and the goals of activists of color, in order to win short-term gains
for their own agenda. The resulting
dynamic has historically shattered the potential of various multiracial
movements, which were making real progress toward radical social change.
These definitions are
used by Anti-Racism for Global Justice,
a project of the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop.
Plenary#3
YPS reports
Jason:
·
-Hey I’m September.
YPS
·
-We lost January YPS.
So each YPS has more work
·
-Anti-Racism Identity
Development (ARID) resource group includes design team, Anti-Racism
Trainer-Organizer Program (ARTOP), Youth Office
·
-Been working with the
design team
·
-We don’t have enough
money to do AR…SCARY!!
·
-The money just isn’t
there
·
-Please keep talking
about how to raise that money
·
-Trying to network
with YA
·
Lot of recent AR STUFF
HAS BEEN YAYA
·
-Been working with
Laurel in the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry; Petra is Laurel’s
replacement.
·
-We been working with
our strong adult allies
·
-We need to keep UUA
accountable to AR work
·
-GA went well, it was
huge
·
Sheraton letter said
awful things that aren’t all that true but been working with the GA Planning
Committee and Revisioning Taskforce to change the bad things
·
-We also been trying
to do more drug and alcohol awareness so we don’t develop leaders into this
addiction problems
·
-SATUURDAY was cool,
·
-Didn’t do local
support, we don’t have the structure for it
·
-No new leadership
coming up
·
-There also needs to
be more two-way relationships
Betty Jeanne
·
-Had an exciting start
·
-Went to GA; GA staff
was awesome
·
-Impressed with id
groups
·
-SATUURDAY awesome
looking forward to continuing working on queer caucus
·
-For SATUURDAY has a
great interim group to keep momentum going and finding new youth leadership for
SATUURDAY
·
-Big event YSJC, good
pre-site, this year will connect a lot more with faith
·
-Working toward regional
YSJC to empower more local and regional leadership to take over
·
-Trainings…. every
year training or trainers people who go will be sent out to work on helping
local/district youth to develop leadership skills
·
-Shout out to Nan
Moore for doing amazing work on trainings
·
-AR being apart of AR
working group, hard because of lack of funding
·
-Excited about
fundraising for AR programming
·
-Excited about
supporting DRUUMM and white allies
·
-Working with interns
on synapse theme is anti-racism
·
-Thrilled about BOT
here at youth council encourages people to talk to them about important
concerns
·
-Jason in for a few
weeks call him and say hi!!!!!!!
·
-Call Betty Jeanne and
say HEY really inspired by all of us people at youth council
SINKFORD SPEAKS!!!!!
·
-Thanks for welcoming
him back to YC
·
-Truly blessed with
people serving as YPSs gives thanks to them
·
-In an effort to make
a better communication path agrees that YPS and bill would meet so that he
could get a person sense of what’s going on with YRUU
·
-Came into UUism
through LRY, culture with YRUU and LRY connect
·
-Lots of hair colors
in YRUU….hehe
·
-Likes the openness
that UUism gives to youth
·
-Likes how it has felt
friendly to some but unfriendly to others and the dynamic and strength of YRUU
and culture works for many but has not worked for all. Common Ground 3 (CG3)
might help to fix this dilemma
·
-CG1 AND 2 different
from the situation today with YRUU
·
-YRUU is healthy doing
positive things and leadership for AR/AO is out passing the adult community
·
-Because situation is
different sees CG3 as a way to continue strength and that it will help us take
steps forward to strengthen youth and adult relations
·
-For cg3 to happen
planning for it need to happen very soon
·
-Funding needs to be
from a variety for sources
·
-Imagination calls for
planning team, which is largely represented to do the work
·
-Requires us all to
say we trust planning committee to do the best job that they can on CG3 so that
we can do good work
·
-Thinks it’s a big
opportunity for strength to be built
·
-Youth programming
very good at GA
·
-GA this year a pivot
point for UUism made worship central for the whole community
·
-Important change was
the presence of congregational-based community work
·
-Covenant groups at GA
these groups changing the way we do religious intimacy
·
-How to get adults and
youth to stay UU
·
-4th
important thing that happened at GA for the first time made intentional effort
to get congregational presidents to GA not just members/ GA junkies
·
-GA this year very big
pivot point, moving ahead with building better community
·
-Happy to be here!
Questions asked to Bill
What if people aren’t a part of one congregation what do they do?
Bill replies- if they belong to CLF we help
to connect them with the larger community
We are 1st generation with principles how do you think leadership will change in the uua?
Bill replies-wants us to look at religious
language ethical to a fault but don’t contain religious language believes that
principles have grounded much of the work we have done on AR and economical
justice. How it will play out he doesn’t know
Heard him say CG3 is next summer or is it going to be GA 2006?
Bill replies -it will be
GA 2006 active conversation with board on cg3, BOARD EXCITED about it.
What kind of work does uua do to support queer youth do they support SATUURDAY?
Huge support of marriage
initiative. Couldn’t have stronger
support for queer youth. Not institutional support for SATUURDAY but supports
the idea of it
Can you further explain changing the language of reverence?
As long as we don’t have
a language and practice of reverence we need to recognize that we don’t walk
alone and participate with something larger than ourselves thinks we need a
language to practice ways to get deeper spiritual connection. UUs don’t like
talking about power other then our own wants us to understand that there is a
love which has not broken faith with us and we need to open ourselves to it.
What is your definition of youth empowerment?
Hopes cg3 will clearly
define it wants kids and youth to be considered part of the community. Knows some work in uua to increase
leadership positions for youth what are these?
Board and committees
working to have more youth and YA apart of things wants congregations to
understand that youth leadership starts at home fundamental change needs to
start there
Is it true that youth and YA don’t come back after they become adults?
Not in all cases but most
people drift away after a period of time UUs seem to encourage it instead of
work against it
There are challenges in districts/regions. To bring adult advisor trainings how can we help districts/Regions fund this?
-
It’s very easy in this
faith to have a hub and spoke of what UUism is centered on authority. UUA is
really us congregations and groups the way we do outer work I can direct things
to happen but the work that we do is coming together to decide what need to
happen around a cluster of youth work thinks cg3 will help this move forward
END OF SINKFORD SPEAKS,
EVERYBODY CLAPS
Thursday
Anti-racism part III
Part two of the poem
Anti-racism Journey
Being in the red zone
Overwhelmed
Examining why we censor ourselves (why we do it,
Feeling
discouraged)
Transforming
guilt into something else useful
Feeling
like the blame is being placed all the white folks
POC-
feeling like they have to justify every thing that they say having to do with
AR wok
POC-
having to censor self to white people so they don’t feel bad and feeling
tokenized
People are feeling uncomfortable
S.S. YRUU
Personal Racism
Most of what’s labeled” racism” on TV-land in news
media is acts of personal racism- one person acting out their racial
prejudice. If we accept that Personal
Racism
Institutional racism
Education system -imprisoning of so many People of Color -“Justice” system -stricter laws on crack than cocaine -People of Color being paid less for the same work as white people -poverty
Cultural Racism
“Flesh” Color Band-Aids -white
is norm –all white models in
stores and advertising –airplane
emergency pamphlet people are white -people
of color playing stereotypical rolls in movies and TV shows
-color and how it relates to what good and what’s bad -mascots for schools and how the are
taking from different cultures -comic books and super heroes -over sexulizaition of Asian woman - cultural misappropriation/theft
Cultural Misappropriation
(what does to it feel like if this happened)
-Changing the meaning
-Violated
-Taking away community
-Create association
-Destroying shared meaning
-Issue of respect
-It
can be hard
Most of the time when
people are oppressed they can see it and those who are not oppressed do not see
it because they have the ability to ignore what is going on
PLENARY 4 with Bill Sinkford
·
Overview of Consensus
and lead into the discussion of the proposal for Common Ground III to happen
o Question to the Board folks about how they intend to
work with youth to help them feel empowered.
Answer from Bill Sinkford in addressing the power dynamics that exist
hopes that the youth and adults could work together.
o Lots of great ideas came out of Long Range Planning
meeting but nothing came out of that and CG III needs to be sure that does not
happen.
o Question about the planning groups structure. Answer from Laura Manning includes a
direction to look at the letter that precedes the resolution.
o Bill expands on the idea that there are areas to
work on to address power dynamics that might come up
o What are we trying to change?
o