Racism & Inequality

Toward Right Relationships with Native People

Here are some actions that can be important steps on the path toward building relationships based on truth, respect and justice.
Doables-Toward Right Relationships with Native Peoples

An Opportunity for Advocacy

Right now there are two bills under consideration in Congress:
HR 5444 and Senate Bill 2907.
We have been asked by our Native Brothers and Sisters
to support this call for a truth and healing commission in the US
to address boarding school policies.
Here is an opportunity to stand with them as allies!

Below you will find the toolkit prepared
by the National Native American Boarding School Coalition
with talking points
and all the information about these two bills.
Please consider calling your Senators and Representatives
in support of a truth and healing commission.

7 Weeks of Action for 7 Generations Toolkit

“No one can say anymore, ‘This does not concern me.’
Imitate Christ by becoming neighbor
to every man, and woman.”
Pope Francis to Ursulines

We are taking our call to be neighbor to every man and woman very seriously.  Right now we are faced with tragic injustices to people of color.  We must do our homework, listen, ponder and take action.  To that end we will be posting resources here:

• White privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
  by Peggy McIntosh
• Black in America: I am tired by Joseph Brown
• The Church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation
  by Shannon Dee Williams
• Privilege/Class/Social Inequities
• The Just Listening Project
• How Can We Win by Kimberly Jones (this one is hard to watch but the insights are important)
• Georgetown University Panel: Racism in our Streets and Structures
• Trevor Noah Video: George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery, Amy Cooper
• “Racism is the temptation white people have yet to overcome”
  by Joan Chittister
• “The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it” by Bryan Massingale
• “White people, let’s do our homework” by Heidi Schlumpf

Stand With Us Against Racism

Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware is proud to introduce you to one of their students, Whitney Grinnge-Cassidy whose Youth Ted talk will renew your faith in the next generation having the values and skills to make positive changes in our world.  Whitney has already had an impact in here school and challenges all of us to ACTION.  Click the link to below and see for yourself.
Why Microaggressions Aren’t So Micro

It is frequently easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it. Key to dealing with white privilege is the courage to own it, and the willingness to learn to be accountable to people of color. – Margaret Alandt, IHM and Pat McClucskey, IHM #StandAgainstRacism  #WhitePrivilege  https://lcwr.org/sites/ default/files/publications/ files/rta11-16_1.pdf

Racism and Inequality continue to be issues that need our attention and action. Below are several resources that you might find helpful:
Open-Wide-Our-Hearts

The Anatomy of Racism

Undoing Racism Continuum of Action