Education (Churches, Schools etc.)
Over the past five years the Social Responsibility Committee of the Central Unitarian Church has involved itself and other members of the congregation in a series of activities aimed at making us better informed and more understanding about the vital topic of racism in the United States. Sunday services provided by our ministers, Sunday services presented by members of the Committee, study and discussion workshops, Saturday workshops, and video presentations of historical aspects of America's use of African and Indian slaves, were all employed as vehicles for educating ourselves concerning where we as a nation and society were and are.
We have become somewhat more aware of the connection between race and the opportunity for economic success in America. We need to know more about this connection. We are also feeling a need to go beyond self-education to practical actions designed to move our local, state, or national racial status a step or two closer to a just society.
Identifying these actions and organizing ourselves to do something about them, is our next task.