Learning about Race and Unconscious Bias

In my own journey to uncover my own unconscious bias from my place of privilege as a white male, I'm using this page to keep track of ideas and resources that are notable to me in my own journey.

• 1. "Why can't we all just treat each other like regular people and get along?" The Lee Mun Wah video The Color of Fear (YouTube) answers this question in a meaningful way.

  2. Henry Ford was a pioneer in industrialization. On July 4, 1917 he also had immigrants graduating from his English school go through a giant melting pot, where they would climb in dressed in their native dress, change inside the giant pot, and exit dressed in sanitized "American" suits, waving an American flag, having lost their previous identity.

  3. The Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) process works to bring about sustainable change and address racism. In Chicago there are Racial Healing Circles where we can address issues in ourselves of race and unconscious bias with experienced facilitators. I have found this to be a profound experience. See the Conversation Guide, and the Circle of Trust Touchstones (from Estrus Tucker's Center for Courage and Renewal) that are norms to guide conversation.

  4. Keith Giles gives perspective in his poem Please Just Follow the Rules. Here are the first two lines:

     1. And when we murder you, could you please protest peacefully?

     2. And when we choke your life away, please kindly refrain from outrage.

  5. The Invasion of America 1.5 minute video shows how the United States took over 1/8th of the world

  6. Henry Louis Gates - African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross on PBS

  7. Neflix original movie 13th (YouTube)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8