Talking About Race and Interupting Racism (Wednesday)
Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. Interrupting racism is essential and often challenging to know how to do it. This session will frame how to talk about race and also how to receive messages from others around race. We must be able to have conversations about race if we are ever going to effectively take actions against racism. It is essential to lean into discomfort to deepen our capacity to recognize and interrupt racist attitudes and actions that occur all around us, every day. If we want to be part of the solution, we have to be willing to get uncomfortable. We can't ever hope to heal the wounds that racism has inflicted - and continues to inflict if we refuse to talk about it. Those conversations aren't always easy, they aren't always pretty, and they aren't always comfortable. But they are absolutely necessary. They are critical.