Connect: An Interracial Discussion on Race in America
The era of America's greatest diversity sometimes looks like the beginning of a great fracturing. Recent police-involved shootings, along with the presidential campaign, have surfaced and amplified intense racial anxiety and a rhetoric of fear and hatred. But it is exactly this environment that gives us an opportunity to speak openly about longstanding divisions and bend, not break, toward something more inclusive.
Connect: An Interracial Discussion on Race in America brings together a diverse cohort of young professionals in their 20’s and 30’s to support each other in working towards racial cohesion and justice with a monthly lay-led discussion group at Sixth & I.
Connect: An Interracial Discussion on Race in America brings together a diverse cohort of young professionals in their 20’s and 30’s to support each other in working towards racial cohesion and justice with a monthly lay-led discussion group at Sixth & I.
How it Works
Our community of young people from culturally and religiously diverse backgrounds will meet monthly for two hours to discuss chapters of White Rage by Carol Anderson. The group will host its kick off meet-and-greet in December 2016 then launch its six dialogue sessions from January to June of 2017.
What We Seek To Accomplish
We want to create an intellectually open and safe space to think about the roots of racialized violence and inequality in America. Many of us have read news articles and watched videos of shootings of people of color and police but may not have had a place to talk about it productively with others. This group is a way to connect with thoughtful, analytical peers who want to build bridges of understanding in an interracial setting. In a time of deep divisions and polarizing voices, we want to create a space where people can find their own voice in the conversation on race.
