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As more whites become aware of the racial disharmony our culture/country faces, there is an urge to immediately get involved in racial justice work. While this does consider the urgency of the problem, it does not recognize that we have not yet gained an understanding of how we got here or how we may reinforce the problem unknowingly. When we show up to help, we end up diverting energy from those who are disenfranchised toward our own re-education when that can and must be done on our own in conjunction with other whites. This class series provides an opportunity for whites to deconstruct internalized racial narratives of supremacy as a personal process toward the broader dismantling of white supremacy. As we commit to the work of examining and re-forming racial patterns, we learn more about who we are and how our nation’s history has shaped the race relations of today. White supremacist ideology has successfully infiltrated every facet of US society. Because of this, there is a deeply entrenched pattern amongst whites to dismiss or argue against the lived experience of people of color. These patterns are problematic to individuals and organizations of color. This series, while it is whites teaching whites, has been developed in conjunction with and supported by people of color as a method to address this challenge.

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