Rev. Steve & Kathryn Lee
Becoming an anti-racist, for an individual who or a church that doesn’t experience racism daily, involves looking around soberly at the present reality of racial disparity, casting one’s eyes toward the possibility of a shared future, strategizing the path forward, and pausing to do the difficult act of looking back on the hard and deep history of racism in our country. Re- understanding our history is the part of that journey we will do today, as we invite in the perspective of Ibram X. Kendi and his book.
By lifting up and dissecting some of America’s most famous historical figures, “Stamped from the Beginning” sheds light on the way racist ideas were actually created to justify discriminatory policies. More than a protest or a call to arms, Kendi attacks racism today with the very history and ideas that built America.
Today, in our long standing UU commitment to looking honestly at hard truths, Rev. Steve & Kathryn Lee will share at the hard history that shaped all of us.
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