Anti-Racism Training

Today we went to an Anti-Racism Training session.
It was three hours long.

I spent the majority of my time organizing my Harry Potter binder with the packets we got at Registration; one the the speakers (all minorites) talked..with a...pause...in the...weirdest places I have...ever heard.

After the speakers talked, we had two sessions of talking with the people at our table. I loved it. It was a table full of YADs and we had about every part of the country there: Pennsylvania, California, Some "M" state in between, South and North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Arkansas.

It was a great conversation.

I'm used to having conversations like these at the dinner table at Thanksgiving, but I don't think I've had the opportunity to have many like this with my peers. This is a great environment.

Having so many people from so many places in the country was so enlightening. I had no idea racism was such a prevalent issue still today. For me, it's almost cliche now. It's over with. You are a minority to disregard minorities.

But for these kids, they saw it everyday. They saw it at work in there communities. Really?

I'm not talking "I don't think we're ready for a black president." People will always be that way. When there are power and domination over others to seize, someone will do the dirty work to get it. Those dumb attempts won't change anytime soon. I'm talking radical behavior. I'm talking about two police men beating a black man beyond recognition and then getting off with it legally.

It's like someone just got polio all over again. I thought we had the vaccine against segregation.

So keep this issue in your prayers. This kind of news makes A) me happy that I live in a secluded area like Wilmington--every once in awhile I'm sheltered from something I want to be sheltered from and B) my heart ache. I hurt for the injustice. Please be aware and educated to help enact a change in all parts of the country.

I'm so thankful to be a part of this learning community.