White Privilege Conversations--Registration

During Worship on April 30, Rev. Susan Ritchie and Rev. Joan Van Becelaere will preview the curriculum “White Privilege: Let's Talk—A Resource for Transformational Dialogue.” They will then invite members and friends to participate in ongoing conversations (in the style of Conversation Café) on Thursday nights, May 4-June 8. 7 PM in Fellowship Hall. This curriculum is designed to invite church members to engage in safe, meaningful, substantive, and bold conversations on race. Divided into six focused parts, each part introduces a different aspect of the dynamic of white privilege: 1. Laying the Groundwork; 2. Whiteness as the Norm: Five Loci of Insights on the Binary of Light/Dark and Black/White; 3. Spiritual Autobiography Told Through the Lens of Race; 4 & 5. The Cash Value of Whiteness or Whiteness as a Tax-Exempt Status; and 6. On Becoming an Ally. All four parts include a brief video presentation and reading with a different view of the subject matter presented based on different people’s unique personal experiences. This is offering is in spirit with the request from the Black Lives Matter Unitarian Universalist requesting that congregations engage in teach-ins regarding white privilege, given the recent events at the Unitarian Universalist Association where hiring practices were decried as institutionally and structurally racist.