About this event
“Our last planned topic was sidelined by the news of the shooting in a supermarket a half a mile away from me in my hometown of Buffalo, NY. This coming week we return to the topic I had planned.
You may be thinking “but my people never owned slaves” or “I don’t see how I’ve benefited from any such white privilege.” Harvard University just released the results of a study concluding “the institution of slavery was essential to Harvard’s growth as an academic institution, serving as a key source of the University’s wealth across three centuries.” Lehman Brothers, the 4th largest investment bank in the US before its 2008 demise, began by trading cotton in Alabama in the 1850’s. Your suburb is all white because racial covenants were imbedded in deeds specifically forbidding selling homes to other than white people. Your ancestors didn’t have to own slaves in order to prove you benefit from white privilege today. Prepare for a real deal American history lesson.
The book White Fragility has become a cultural touchstone for our time. Most white people, though, report having no regular contact with non-white people and can only discuss race in an “echo chamber” of other white frames of reference. With black workshop facilitator Nanette D. Massey, here’s your chance to contextualize race from a frank, practical, real world experience rather than theory.”
$$ AT WILL DONATION $$
3:00 PM to 4 :30 PM Eastern
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Central
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Mountain
12 noon to 1:30PM Pacific
11:00 AM to 12:30 Alaska
www.NanetteDMassey.com
