ENDING RACISM AND WHITE PRIVILEGE; EMBRACING INTERRACIAL DIVERSITY

Racism is a system of oppression that cripples all of us.

Free At Last offers forums where participants can speak safely about issues of racism, and listen with hearts as well as minds.

FRIENDS AND RACISM

Saturday, October 28, 2006 6-9:00pm

Purchase Meetinghouse

Purchase and Lake Streets

Purchase, NY 10577

(in small classroom beside art room)

6-6:45pm Potluck

6:45-9pm Program: How racism wounds white people

Oppression of any kind damages the oppressors at the same time it wounds the people targeted. Quakers such as John Woolman and David Ferris who ministered against slavery had a deep concern, not only for the enslaved, but for the enslaver. In our own time, we need to understand how the humanity of white people is impacted by racism. Through study of David Ferris’s letters and Jeff Hitchcock’s writings on“internalized dominance” and through sharing our own stories, we will consider the wounding and roads to healing.

Free At Last Facilitators: Robin Alpern, Mahesh Thomas

PLEASE RSVP TO ROBIN ALPERN AT (914) 736-5447 or robinalpern@verizon.net