DAY 14: Reflection on Week Two, Looking Ahead to Week Three
"Silence and inaction only serve to perpetuate the status quo of race relations. Will we, as a nation, choose the path we have always traveled, a journey of silence that has benefited only a select group and oppressed others, or will we show courage and choose the road less traveled, a journey of racial reality that may be full of discomfort and pain, but offers benefits to all groups in our society?" - Derald Wing Sue
As with last weekend, we invite you to find some quiet time (if possible and desirable) to get centered and to consider the past two weeks of your participation in the Challenge. Revisit what you've learned this past week when you looked at your bookstore through an anti-racist lens. Check in with yourself around feelings that came up for you.
Next week, our theme is Anti-Racism and Your Community, and we'll suggest prompts to help you create a more equitable society.
Last Week: Anti-Racism and Your Bookstore
Tomorrow: Structural Racism/Wealth Gap
Author Photo Credit: N.A.H./PBS News Nour | Excerpted from Words of Change: Anti-Racism by permission of Sasquatch Books. Copyright 2020 By Kenyra Rankin. All rights reserved.
SIBA thanks its generous sponsors, who have made the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge possible:
Many of the quotes used in the Challenge are excerpted from Words of Change: Anti-Racism by permission of Sasquatch Books. Copyright 2020 By Kenyra Rankin. All rights reserved.
Although SIBA has modified when appropriate for a bookseller audience, the majority of prompts and resources come directly from the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge created by Food Solutions New England (FSNE). We are so grateful for their extraordinary work creating this program and making it available to other organizations.
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