[JTWNews] What do you think about the UUA Anti-Racism Work?

[Susan Leslie]

Dear JTW-News Readers:

My apologies for a second posting today but I left out an important and
timely request from the principal author of the forthcoming Skinner
House Book -- Journey From Calgary.

Please note responses are due by July 31st.  Best, Susan

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Hello!

Three of us, Leon Spencer, the Rev. Chip Roush and myself are writing a
book on anti-racism efforts in the UUA, concentrating mainly on the time
period between 1992 and 2005.  We would like your opinion!  We hope to
present as many different perspectives on this effort as possible and to
that end have reached out to many groups over the last 18 months.  We
are making one last effort to get other opinions (and if you have
already participated, encourage a friend!)  We seek a range of stories
and perspectives:  observers who can provide a personal perspective on a
particular key event, supporters of the work to say why it was valuable
to them, to their congregation and to the UUA; critics to say what harm
was done and why they wished things had been otherwise.  Only in this
way can we use the lessons of history to inform our future.  

We also know you are busy, so we have tried to make this easier.  If you
have an opinion on the UUA's efforts towards anti-racism, please
consider addressing the following two questions:

What one event, occasion, interaction, etc. stands out for you
personally around this work and how did it affect you?

A decade from now, what do you think you might tell a young person who
asks you about this work and its significance?

Please include full contact information so that we may be in touch with
you.

Send your submissions by July 31 to antiracism15 at earthlink.net.  And
thanks for helping us tell this important story.  

http://JourneyFromCalgary.blogspot.com/

Rev. Leslie Takahashi Morris
home office/mobile 434-409-2350

 

Susan Leslie
Director for Congregational Advocacy and Witness Unitarian Universalist
Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston MA  02108
(617) 948-4607; sleslie at uua.org
www.uua.org/justice
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Susan Leslie
Director for Congregational Advocacy and Witness
Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston MA  02108
(617) 948-4607; sleslie at uua.org
www.uua.org/justice
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