PRFC - Expect Equality

Before anything else...

Mar 15, 2007

Welcome to the Community Conversation of the Partners for a Racism-Free Community! Whether you'd like to join our group (please do!) or you're just looking around, we hope we could help you in your effort to create a community unplagued by racism.

Members, we'd like to hear your thoughts and feelings on our common fight against racism. Feel free to write about it in our Blog section. Anybody is free to react to the blog entries and to keep the conversation going! :-)

Please remember that this is a group that values conversation. Please do not post anything that is not related to our cause or the topic at hand. Such entries will be subject to deletion by the Administrator.

Any member may report such entries to the Administrator for review.

The entries and reactions reflect the views of their respective author. If any of it will be reprinted in any other venue, please make sure to get the author's permission first.

Here are a few guidelines we'll all follow for sharing (based on Healing Racism in America by Nathan Rutstein):

1. Sharing is voluntary and can be difficult, but it is expected for the process of learning.
2. We want to create a safe, loving, and respectful atmosphere and it's up to us to do that.
3. Sharing is about one's own feelings, experiences, perceptions, and beliefs.
4. We are not always going to agree or see everything the same way and that's okay.
5. Each person has a right to and responsibility for his or her own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs.
6. It is important to avoid criticism or judgment about another person's sharing and point of view or his or her feelings.
7. Avoid getting tied up in debate and argument. It rarely changes anything or anyone and tends to ultimately inhibit the sharing.
8. We can only change ourselves. Our change and growth may, however, inspire someone else.
9. Refrain from singling out any individual as "representing" his or her group or issue.
10. It is important to give full attention to whoever is sharing.
11. We will surely make mistakes in our efforts, but mistakes are occasions for learning and forgiving.
12. We came together to try to learn about the disease of racism and promote a healing process.
13. We may laugh and cry together, share pain, joy, fear, or anger. Feelings are important. 14. Hopefully we will leave these "conversations" with a deeper understanding and a renewed hope for the future of humanity.

So look around. Speak. Spread the word. And expect equality.

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