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SDARJ Town Hall – Being White in a Multicultural Society: The Conversation We Need

SDARJ Town Hall – Being White in a Multicultural Society: The Conversation We Need

SDARJ Town Hall – Being White in a Multicultural Society: The Conversation We Need
Date:  September 14, 2021 at 7PM
PLEASE REGISTER AT: https://conversationsweneed.eventbrite.com

Before the September 14 event, we encourage everyone to watch the TEDx talk, “How Can I Have a Positive Racial Identity? I’m White!” by Ali Michael.  You can find the video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxXMf5K1W6E.

Although race is a social construct with no biological foundation, many of us in the predominantly white community often see race as something that other people have.  Join the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice to explore what it means to be white in our multicultural society.  An interracial panel will be co-moderated by Dr. Katherine Cauley and Rev. Dania Griffin.

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SDARJ comments on individual rights and civic responsibility

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COMMENTARY

Sara Ford

The Cape Gazette | August 24, 2021 

“You can’t tell me what to do!”  “You’re trying to take away my freedom.”  “That’s an attack on my individual rights.”  “It’s my choice.  It has nothing to do with you; it’s all about me.”

Me, me, mine, I, I, I.

And so, here we are once again in the midst of a COVID surge, spreading with alarming rapidity because of the new variant.  Yet, even as states are experiencing more new cases, more deaths, a large swath of people continues to refuse to be vaccinated and refuse to wear masks.  Being told to do so is an attack on individual rights and personal freedom, they argue.  At this point, with our country so painfully polarized, even a request is taken as an affront.

Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.

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SAVE THE DATE: SDARJ Special Forum on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing – Part 3

SAVE THE DATE: SDARJ Special Forum on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing – Part 3

Please save the date for the third session of our series of Special Forums on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing.  This session on August 24 will feature a panel of law enforcement experts, including Captain Alice Brumbley of State Police Troop 5; Chief Patrick Ogden, Associate Vice President and Chief of Police of the University of Delaware; Chief Keith Banks of Rehoboth Beach; and Chief Thomas Spell of Lewes.  Please register at: https://sdarjpolicing3.eventbrite.com

The first two parts of the series may be viewed at  https://youtu.be/4OqjUWwA4eU and https://youtu.be/NT3gIH8Mw4g

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No place in our community for display

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CAPE GAZETTE | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sara Ford and Charlotte King
July 23, 2021

Summertime at Rehoboth Beach.  People from all walks of life fill the streets, sit on the beaches with friends, family, walk the Boardwalk, enjoying Boardwalk food, maybe stopping off at Funland.  There is an exception to this idyllic image, the moment one passes a store with a doll of Dr. Anthony Fauci hanging from a surgical mask on public display.

First, this particular doll is a symbol that supports non-compliance with public policy.  Except for the brief period when no one yet understood COVID-19’s form of contagion, particles from our mouths, Dr. Fauci has pleaded with the nation to wear masks.  Immediately there arose the cry of individual rights. Yet mask wearing is really about every individual’s right, their right to live.  By wearing a mask, a person is taking care of others around him or her.  It is a highly effective means of controlling the spread of COVID, which has killed over 600,000 people in the U.S. so far.  Dr. Fauci is the spokesperson for mask-wearing.  Putting this symbol in a toy display deliberately defies his pleas to do something that is for all public good.

Read the entire Cape Gazette Letter to the Editor here.

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