Teach-In for Peace & Justice
Update
UUA Repair Process Shared Statement (October 15, 2019)
UU White Supremacy Teach-in
Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 10:40 a.m., facilitated by Rev. Carl
We will meet in the sanctuary during the Middle Hour between the two Sunday services. All are welcome.
- A "teach-in" is an educational forum to equip activists for social change, related to the protest strategy of a "sit-in."
- In spring 2017, UUCF was one of nearly 700 of our 1,038 UU congregations that participated in "round one" of the teach-ins.
- This fall, we are again joining hundreds of other UU congregations for "round two" as part of an ongoing process to "accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions." All are welcome, regardless of whether you were able to attend the previous teach-in.
White Supremacy
The term White Supremacy is about not only individual racist beliefs, but also a broad system of laws, norms and customs that create a society with unequal opportunities for people based on race.
White Supremacy refers to more than people 'out there' like the Ku Klux Klan, who are conscious, aspirational White Supremacists, seeking to intentionally create a more racist society. Denouncing conscious, aspirational White Supremacy is a vitally important entry level of dismantling racism.
A more advanced level of dismantling racism challenges us to look in the mirror and investigate the ways that being raised in a racist, sexist, classist, heterosexist, ableist society has caused each of us to sometimes unconsciously perpetuate systems of oppression in various ways.
For more, read Rev. Carl's sermon from April 30, 2017 on "Spiritual Practices of Curiosity & Commitment #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachin"
Background
Read the UU World's Further updates to UUA resignations and controversy over hiring practices.
For Further Study
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Also see the Netflix documentary 13th
- Also see the Netflix documentary 13th
- Victor Carpenter, Long Challenge: The Empowerment Controversy (1967-1977)
- Mark Morrison-Reed, Black Pioneers in a White Denomination
- ________, Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism
- ________, The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism
- Morris, Roush, and Spencer, The Arc of the Universe Is Long: Unitarian Universalists, Anti-Racism, and the Journey from Calgary
Rev. Carl's Sermons on Racial Justice & Dismantling Racism
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness (February 10, 2013)
- Building the Beloved Community: Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism in a Local Congregation (October 6, 2013)
- Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall: Claiming Our Social Justice Story (February 2, 2014)
- Rosa Parks: The Rest of the Story (January 18, 2015)
- "The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism" (March 8, 2015)
- Letting Go of Fear and Celebrating Differences: Insights from Intersectionality for Collective Liberation (August 9, 2015)
- What Ta-Nehisi Coates Taught Me About "People Who Believe They Are White" (September 20, 2015)
- The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why We Need a Third Reconstruction in America (January 17, 2016)
- Developing Double Consciousness: Beyonce, Black Panthers, & W.E.B. Du Bois (February 21, 2016)
- "Whose Side Are You On?" The Legacy of Anne Braden for Today (September 18, 2016)
- What's Fair? Who Decides?Privilege: Navigating the Ethics of Privilege & Oppression (November 20, 2016)
(The short link to this page is frederickuu.org/TeachIn.)