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Lenten devotional 2023
How should Christians view war?
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PC(USA)
Facing Racism
https://facing-racism.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/facing_racism/facing-racism-study-guide.pdf
Things White Folks Can Do
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-31/black-owned-restaurants-in-los-angeles?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+-+What+You+Missed+ +0606&utm_term=Read+more+Block+2&utm_id=7931&sfmc_id=1566971
https://parade.com/1045096/jessicasager/how-to-be-anti-racist/
Doing the Inner Work:
Layla Saad, “Doing the Inner Work of Dismantling White Supremacy”
Kikanza Nuri-Robins, “Fish Out of Water”
Realize that being “woke” is not a trend:
https://blavity.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke?category1=opinion
Words must be backed by actions:
Call out but don’t take up excess space:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/
White Supremacy = A White Problem. Organize white People:
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/anti-racism-workshops-classes/
Empower other by risking power:
https://www.1953movement.com/ideas-on-power-sharing/
Reading against racism reading list:
'White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide' by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander
'How to Be an Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi
'Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century' by Monique W. Morris
'The Invention of the White Race' by Theodore W. Allen
'Between the World and Me' by Ta-Nehisi Coates
'Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II'
by Douglas A. Blackmon
'Choke Hold: Policing Black Me' by Paul Butler
'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' by Robin DiAngelo
'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine
'Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America' by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
'So You Want to Talk About Race' by Ijeoma Oluo
'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America' by Moustafa Bayoumi
'Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America' by Michael Eric Dyson
'The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America' by Richard Rothstein
'The History of White People' by Nell Irvin Painter
'They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement' by Wesley Lowery