adapted from crossroads anti-racism organizing and training
Anti-Racism
exploring racial justice, Diversity, and inclusion
Anti-Racism
exploring racial justice, Diversity, and inclusion
what are Anti-racist Values?
adapted from crossroads anti-racism organizing and training
Both/And thinking
with a bias toward action: Acknowledges that multiple realities and
various ways of doing things are valued. We work through differences to find solutions that
honor the gifts of everyone in the community. Bias toward action means not allowing
conflict to paralyze us into indecision and immobility.
Abundant Worldview
If we operate from premise of “Abundance is all around, how can we access it?” Questions about resources and who controls them
begin to shift. Power is shared and innovation is possible.
Transparent Communication
Inclusive processes take longer to come to consensus, but once a decision is made, implementation is quicker.
Trust is important to transparent communication, allowing individuals to make mistakes and recover from them without being scapegoated by the institution.
Cooperation & collaboration
foster individual creativity and courage. Protecting an
ethos of cooperation & collaboration extends the boundaries of race and power so that the
distributed gifts of God are released; we can do more, do it better, and joy and pleasure kick-start the creative process.
Our Signature Class:
Racial Equity as a Spiritual Practice
In an effort to build a common language and understanding of racism among the people of DCC, in 2021, we hired Crossroads Anti-Racism Training and Organizing to offer:
Session 1: What is Systemic Racism?
Session 2: How are Systemic and Structural Racism Connected to the Ideology of White Supremacy?
Session 3: What is the relationship between power and racism?
Session 4: How has Christianity, actively and passively, upheld and legitimized racism and white supremacy?
Session 5: What is antiracism?
We hope to offer this class again in 2024.
The tools, language and understanding we developed in these training sessions are guiding our ongoing anti-racism work at DCC. Our work is imperfect and always in process. Some recent highlights of our efforts include: