Racial Justice SundayAugust 5, 2018

WELCOME

While You Gather, Eat & Greet

Share the story of your name……

• Does it have a meaning?

• Were you named for someone special?

• Do you have other names or nick names? How did you get them?

• What would you like to be called today?

GUIDE MY FEET An African American Spritual

Guide my feet, while I run this race.

Guide my feet, while I run this race.

Guide my feet, while I run this race.

For I don't want to run this race in vain! (race in vain)

2. Hold my hand, while I run this race……..

3. Stand by me, while I run this race…….

4. Search my heart, while I run this race……….

Opening, Welcome & Overview

Testimonies

Ware Lecture: Brittany Packnett

Testimonies

Small Group Conversation & Reflection

Closing

2018 UUA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

an excerpt from

Ware Lecture with Brittany Packnett

https://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2018/ware

WE ARE BUILDING UP NEW WORLD Sing Together

We are building up a new worldWe are building up a new worldWe are building up a new worldBuilders must be strong.

Courage, sisters, don’t get wearyCourage, brothers, don’t get wearyCourage, people, don’t get wearyThough the way be long.

POWER OF SONG

from Poor People’s Campaign

‘Somebody’s Hurting My Brother’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QIhizB8wsU

• Groups of 3-4 people. • 1 question for individual reflection.• Silently reflect & write your thoughts. • Take turns sharing, each for up to 2 minutes. • LISTEN!!• Open dialogue as time allows. • Questions / comments to RJ Team on 3 x 5 cards.

SMALL GROUP CONVERSATION Instructions

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

• What is the commitment that you hold that brought you into this room?

• What of your values or beliefs are violated by systemic oppression and racism; when & how did you start to understand this violation?

• How might we as the UUC community support one another to do this even more boldly, intentionally?

ELLA’S SONG

We Who Believe in FreedomCannot Rest Until it Comes

by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

of Sweet Honey & the Rock

https://youtu.be/EGQJmUsEE2I

ELLA’S SONG Lyrics

- We who believe in freedom cannot rest…….We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

- Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers' sons

- That which touches me most is that I had a chance to work with people……..Passing on to others that which was passed

on to me

- To me young people come first…….They have the courage where we fail…….And if I can but shed some light as they

carry us through the gale

- The older I get the better I know that the secret of my going on…….Is when the reins are in the hands of the young,

who dare to run against the storm

- Not needing to clutch for power……..Not needing the light just to shine on me………I need to be one in the number

as we stand against tyranny

- Struggling myself don't mean a whole lot, I've come to realize that teaching others to stand up and fight is the only way my

struggle survives

- I'm a woman who speaks in a voice and I must be heard……..At times I can be quite difficult, I'll bow to no man's word

GET INVOLVED• UUA Love Resists Campaign https://www.uua.org/loveresists• Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for a Moral Revival

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/demands/ • Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County https://www.facebook.com/blmseattle/• No New Youth Jail Campaign – People's Moratorium https://nonewyouthjail.com/• UUC's Racial Justice Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/uucracialjustice/

READ5 TO START WITH……..• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson https://eji.org/bryan-stevenson• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin• Soul Work: Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue – Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley & Nancy Palmer Jones,

Editors• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo http://www.ijeomaoluo.com/• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.ibramxkendi.com/

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KEEP READING• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander• Towards the ‘Other America’: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter – Chris Crass

http://www.chriscrass.org/• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates• Centering – Navigating Race, Authenticity, and Power in Ministry – Mitra Rahnema, Editor• White Fragility – Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Race – Robin DiAngelo https://robindiangelo.com/WATCH FILMS

• World Trust, Racial justice filmmaker Shakti Butler -- https://world-trust.org/Cracking the Codes -- https://crackingthecodes.org/ (available through Seattle Public Library)

LEARN THROUGH TRAINING• People’s Institute Northwest for Survival & Beyond, offers 2-day Undoing Institutionalized Racism workshop to educate,

challenge and empower people to “undo” racist structures www.pinwseattle.org• Cultures Connecting: Addressing Race Relations in the 21st Century, with Caprice Hollins, Psy.D.

https://www.culturesconnecting.com/AND A FEW MORE RESOURCES…….• Unitarian Universalist Association Resources – https://www.uua.org/racial-justice• The Movement for Black Lives, with their Vision for Black Lives policy demands – https://policy.m4bl.org/

https://policy.m4bl.org/about/• Project Pilgrimage, local movement and call to action with an interracial, intergenerational civil rights pilgrimage at its core

– http://projectpilgrimage.org/ http://projectpilgrimage.org/pilgrimage/

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