Racial Equity Task Force Discuss and Reflect | Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt it

JRC’s Racial Equity Task Force meets generally on the second Thursday of the month. Questions? Email retf.jrc@gmail.com.

Join JRC’s Racial Equity Task Force at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at JRC for a discussion of a chapter from “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It,” a book by Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan. It includes personal stories from ordinary people about their experiences of Chicago’s “South Side” and “West Side” as cultural norms facilitating and maintaining segregation. One of the stories by “Katheryn” will be shared to facilitate a discussion of our own experiences and struggles with the “Don’t Go” concept as we aim to move toward a more anti-racist stance.

Please RSVP here to let us know you are coming and to receive the reading selection from “Don’t Go.”

The Jewish value of tikkun olam, or “repair of the world,” is central to the Racial Equity Task Force’s (RETF) commitment to working for a more racially just and equitable world. We believe tikkun olam is active, not passive. Acts of antiracism are acts of world repair. Antiracism is about opposing the superiority of one race over another, opposing white supremacy culture, and advocating for racial equity. White supremacy culture is the ideology that white people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to BIPOC and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Racial equity exists when one’s race does not determine one’s life outcomes. The RETF is committed to understanding and dismantling white supremacy culture and systemic racism wherever we encounter it, beginning with ourselves and our JRC community.