Resources for growing toward the Beloved Community


MFSA Justice Seeking Congregation
​Resources


 Links:
"I, Racist"-John Metta : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-metta/i-racist_b_7770652.html
Becoming Trustworthy White Allies: http://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-race/becoming-trustworthy-white-allies
* See more at http://www.alliesforchange.org
"The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not.": https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/990928-the-only-reason-you-say-that-race-was-not-an
White America's Racial Illiteracy: http://www.salon.com/2015/04/10/white_americas_racial_illiteracy_why_our_national_conversation_is_poisoned_from_the_start_partner/
Martin Luther King, Jr. Philosophy & The Beloved Community: http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy#sub4
Sojourners article on perception differences: http://go.sojo.net/site/R?i=l08wWuce-pFJFMR-i6HLqg
Bicycles & White Privilege: http://alittlemoresauce.com/2014/08/20/what-my-bike-has-taught-me-about-white-privilege/
White Privilege Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: http://www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/2014/05/white-privilege-doesnt-mean-what-you.html - (Contains links to other good articles as well.)
One easy way to make the world a better place: (grocery store incident)
 * http://www.upworthy.com/one-easy-thing-all-white-people-could-do-that-would-make-the-world-a-better-place-5;
 * YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvU7uUgjUI;
 * see also http://crackingthecodes.org/
The Promise: A Lesson in White Privilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A89xhMV63rQ
Classroom lesson on Privilege: http://www.buzzfeed.com/nathanwpyle/this-teacher-taught-his-class-a-powerful-lesson-about-privil
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World (IVP book) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0830832475
Longing: Stories Of Racial Healing by Phyllis A Unterschuetz & Eugene F Unterschuetz: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1931847681
I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them From Discrimination: I Was Wrong: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/
Moving Faith Communities to Fruitful Conversations about Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPzXAyRbtM
Comic on Privilege: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
White Space: http://sociology.yale.edu/publications/white-space
Whiteness Project: http://www.whitenessproject.org/
Johann Hari: Everything We Know About the Drug War & Addiction is Wrong: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/4/johann_hari_everything_we_know_about
A Space Where People Are Free To Be Themselves: http://www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/5369/churches-must-provide-a-space-where-people-are-free-to-be-themselves
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not-less.html
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-2.html
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 3: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-3.html
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 4: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-4.html
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 5: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-5.html
When Whites Just Don't Get It-Part 6: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-6.html
Interracial relationships & identity: http://www.musingmomma.com/2012/03/interracial-relationships-identity.html
Locking People Up For Being Poor?: https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/still-locking-people-being-poor-really-its-2014
A woman comes to terms with her slave-owning past: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/15/262431646/a-woman-comes-to-terms-with-her-familys-slave-owning-past
The Race Card Project: http://theracecardproject.com/
An African Princess Who Stood Unafraid Among Nazis: http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/11/african_woman_s_story_revived_autobiography_of_an_african_princess.1.html
Poor people & luxury goods: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-do-poor-people-waste-money-on-luxury-goods
Teacher & Structural Racism Class:
  * http://www.salon.com/2013/12/02/three_white_college_students_file_racial_discrimination_complaint_against_professor_over_lesson_on_structural_racism/
  * http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/black-female-professor-reprimanded-for-pointing-out-existence-of-structural-racism-to-white-male-students/
Sexual Violence & the Church: http://sojo.net/blogs/series/sexual-violence-and-the-church
Hispanic Studies in Arizona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34oz5pslPjE#t=273
On UM gay weddings: http://um-insight.net/blogs/morgan-guyton/the-united-methodist-gay-wedding-crisis/
Henry Gates documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/
Jim Wallis: "The Most Controversial Sentence I Ever Wrote":
* https://sojo.net/articles/12-years-slave/most-controversial-sentence-i-ever-wrote
or
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/the-most-controversial-se_b_4157353.html
Not If, But When: http://umc-gbcs.org/faith-in-action/word-from-winkler-not-if-but-when
The follow-up to the biracial Cheerios commercial-Kids React: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/kids-react-cheerios-commercial-race
The What Would You Do? bicycle theft episode:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ge7i60GuNRg
Sojourners Articles on race (Trayvon-related):  http://sojo.net/blogs/series/remembering-trayvon:-race,-faith-and-truth
ABC news report on Obama’s reflections on the (Trayvon-Zimmerman) verdict:  http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/obama-speaks-trayvon-martin-ruling-19719840
Whites in Africa: http://storify.com/spectraspeaks/dear-white-people-africa-isn-t-a-play-pen-for-your and http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2013/09/white_woman_maasai_warrior.html
Would putting me in prison serve the common good?: http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/05/09/watch-would-putting-me-prison-serve-common-good
Wisconsin University - It's Unfair to be White: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340608/wisconsin-university-joins-campaign-saying-its-unfair-be-white-andrew-johnson
Fighting against mass incarceration: http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Kmvs+9EHYcwfqiarqhiNOsAqycKBdWtJ
10 Simple Words Every Girl Should Learn: http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2014-05-10-simple-words-every-girl-learn
White America Avoids Responsibility for Racism: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/11-ways-white-america-avoids-taking-responsibility-its-racism
The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men — And how to reform our bigoted brains: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/science-of-racism-prejudice
The Science of Your Racist Brain — Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we're still responsible for our actions.: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/inquiring-minds-david-amodio-your-brain-on-racism
Implicit Bias - University collection: http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/research/understanding-implicit-bias/
Just How Racist Are Schoolteachers?: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/teachers-racism-bias-stanford
Bicycle Riding While Black: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ayfriday/riding-bicycles-while-black-9cu3
Repenting of 'Colorblindness': http://rachelheldevans.com/blog/repenting-of-colorblindness-charleston-shooting
Why Are We Still Talking About Racism?: https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/595352760606235
The Danger of a single story: http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en#t-149019
Why Ethnic Studies are Important: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/classes/2015/09/take_an_ethnic_studies_class_to_understand_history_and_racism_asian_american.html
Webcast: Racism, Homelessness, & Social Justice: http://us.thinkt3.com/t3-webcast-racism-homelessness-and-social-justice (with links to other info)
Nine TED talks to help understand racism in America: https://www.ted.com/playlists/250/talks_to_help_you_understand_r
White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-womens-tears-and-the-men-who-love-them-twlm/
How Race Influences School Funding: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/public-school-funding-and-the-role-of-race/408085/
Scandal (TV clip) Confronts Some -isms: http://abc.go.com/shows/scandal/video/pl55126743/VDKA0_z9ky33nm, also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVWZ2cQJBSU
Thoughts on long-lasting dialogs about race: https://www.faithandleadership.com/adrian-miller-it-takes-more-race-have-successful-dialogue-about-race
Maine Governor's Racially-biased comments: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharda-sekaran/paul-lepage-heroin_b_8940158.html
Will my son be black enough for Rob Parker?: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2012/12/will-my-son-be-black-enough-for-rob-parker/
"I Lock My Car Doors": http://www.amusingmaralee.com/2013/07/confession-i-lock-my-car-doors/
Don't Be Colorblind: http://www.amusingmaralee.com/2014/01/dont-be-color-blind/
"To The White Parents Of My Black Son's Friends": http://www.amusingmaralee.com/2015/12/to-the-white-parents-of-my-black-sons-friends/
   ... referenced in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-white-moms-plea-to-the-white-parents-of-my-black-sons-friends/2016/01/06/a32441a0-b47e-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html
How silence can breed prejudice: A child development professor explains how and why to talk to kids about race: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/07/06/how-silence-can-breed-prejudice-a-child-development-professor-explains-how-and-why-to-talk-to-kids-about-race/
In Northern Ireland, Terror gets old, but divisions linger: http://www.npr.org/2015/07/18/424120157/in-northern-ireland-terror-gets-old-but-divisions-linger
White Parents react to video on systemic racism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/02/11/parents-outraged-after-students-shown-white-guilt-cartoon-for-black-history-month/ original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY and talking points: http://www.aapf.org/talking-points-unequal-opp-video
Kevin Powell: Will Racism Ever End?: http://www.utne.com/community/kevin-powell-will-racism-ever-end-zl0z16szsau.aspx
Stop Calling It White Privilege: http://neguswhoread.com/stop-calling-white-privilege
Grieving The White Void: https://medium.com/@abelateiner/grieving-the-white-void-48c410fdd7f3
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome DVD - Dr. Joy DeGruy (2:19:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1mgEi8HtQ&
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome College Lecture 2011 - Dr. Joy DeGruy (1:49:58): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7tpAK8APY
Post Traumatic Disorder - Dr Joy DeGruy - Leary London Lecture 2008 (1:21:35): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQ-Ci6LwVw
Cognitive Dissonance (0:36:52): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNRnctOyS8w
Why They Won't Teach True Black History In School - Dr. Joy DeGruy (0:5:26): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtvuVKPBGNQ
Selma, Race, and Courageous Conversations: http://corwin-connect.com/2016/03/selma-race-courageous-conversations
9 Questions to Guide Your Cultural Proficiency: http://corwin-connect.com/2016/03/9-questions-guide-cultural-proficiency
Hannah Adair Bonner: My Feet Are Planted: https://soulunbound.com/2015/04/28/my-feet-are-planted/
Rachel Hackenberg: Dear White Preachers, Take Off Your Prophet’s Mantle: http://rachelhackenberg.com/dear-white-preachers-take-off-your-prophets-mantel/
Romal Tune interviews Richard Rohr on White Privilege: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/romal-tune/richard-rohr-on-white-pri_b_8985742.html
How God as Trinity Dissolves Racism - Richard Rohr: https://sojo.net/articles/how-god-trinity-dissolves-racism
White Parents: We Need to have 'The Talk' with our Kids & Police Chiefs: https://sojo.net/articles/white-parents-we-need-have-talk-our-kids-and-police-chiefs
That Big Bad Dude Was ... (Terence Crutcher): http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2016/09/20/that-big-bad-dude-was/
On Cultural Appropriation: Brisbane Writer's Conference Roiled by Keynote Talk by Lionel Shriver: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/books/lionel-shriver-cultural-appropriation-brisbane-writers-festival.html ... two responses: Yassmin Abdel-Magied https://medium.com/@yassmin_a/i-walked-out-of-the-brisbane-writers-festival-keynote-address-this-is-why-78a4d8c4b7ac and Yen-Rong http://inexorablist.com/dangerous-ideas/
Getting Away With Murder In Chester: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Getting_Away_With_Murder_in_Chester.html
Vital Conversations on Racism with Dr. Robin DiAngelo (0:22:06): http://www.gcorr.org/video/vital-conversations-on-racism-with-dr-robin-diangelo/
An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/09/26/an-ivy-league-professor-on-why-colleges-dont-hire-more-faculty-of-color-we-dont-want-them/
Videos on Mass Incarceration & Social Injustice: (TCRC-Philadelphia): http://tcrcphilly.org/from-the-executive-director/in-the-community
Michelle Obama's White House Farewell:
-- Full video (21 min): http://www.npr.org/2017/01/06/508546111/michelle-obamas-emotional-farewell-the-power-of-hope-has-allowed-us-to-rise
-- Highlights (2 min.): http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/michelle-obama-final-speech/index.html
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo: https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh: http://code.ucsd.edu/pcosman/Backpack.pdf
Explaining White Privilege to a Broken White Person - Gina Crosley-Corcoran: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html
"But You Speak So Well": Explaining How Latinos Experience Subtle Racism - Sylvia L. Mazzula, PhD: https://psychologybenefits.org/2013/09/26/how-latinos-experience-subtle-racism/
This Is What Modern Day Discrimination Against Native Americans Looks Like - Matt Sacaro: https://mic.com/articles/101804/this-is-what-modern-day-discrimination-against-native-americans-looks-like
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion - Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BY9UEewHw
How To Talk About Race - Eric Deggans at TEDxBloomington (10 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojLHDG_Y4w
Hidden Figures ... Hidden Racism: https://sojo.net/articles/hidden-racism
Being an Asian Adoptee in a White Church: http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2017/03/being-asian-adoptee-in-white-church-in.html
Vital Conversations: Puerto Rico: http://www.gcorr.org/vital-conversations-puerto-rico/ "Being Bi-lingual in a Culture That Doesn't Understand It"(6m) ; "Building the Beloved Community Within The Church"(14m) ; "Environmental Racism and Economic Justice in Brazil"(16m)
Learning From Strangers: http://www.gcorr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LFS-local-6.26.17.pdf
Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence: ​http://faithsunited.org and Heeding God's Call: http://heedinggodscall.org