Lets Talk About Race

Many years a teacher at the Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, Larry knows about race and race history in Cambridge, and in the US. Larry talks about "what is race?". And the history of the narrative about the human race. Larry starts off saying, "there is no such thing, scientifically, as race". Race is a construct, but racism pervades everything in our culture

Before World War II, German people, like many people in Europe and elsewhere migrated to different parts of Europe to live, create communities and raise families. In our discussion of race tonight Lena talks about her German origin family who had no participation in the German army at all, and indeed were living in Hungary for generations. Post WWII this family and their whole village were evaculated from their farms, homes, lands, animals, friends and forced to move to Germany with nothing simply because they were German ethnic and German Speaking. Let's Talk About Race.

The DeCola family joined Let's Talk About Race for a discussion of the challenges inherent in raising decent, non-racist, white children growing up in the age of Trump. How does one family respond to the challenges of raising children who are self-aware and successful in these troubling times? Join us for an empowering discussion on Let's Talk About Race.

White people have been deluded into believing they are superior. Religion has played a big part in this delusion. We need to uncover that and bring out the truth. All we have is this moment and all we have is each other in this moment. When we fall, we are called to help each other up. We are ultimately vulnerable human beings.

Diane Wong, a black woman with a multiracial family background talks about race from her personal perspective.

HOW CAN WHITE PEOPLE UNLEARN RACISM & WHITE SUPREMACY BELIEFS?

Unlearning racism requires reaching both the “head” and the “heart” of white Americans.

White Americans need to learn the actual, accurate historical facts of our nation.

At the same time, white Americans need to identify with and feel human kinship with Americans of color.

Cognitive learning – learn the facts of what really happened as our nation was founded and how the structures of white supremacy continue today.

Emotional learning – begin to see how different it is to be a person of color living in the US then a white person and how unfair those differences in advantages/unearned privileges are.

Full body scan and relaxation with focus on the three physical chakras. Once you have everything you need, you are feeling ground and ready, all the ideas spring forward with ease. Now its time for the fire in the belly. Time to take action, to move forward. Take a first step and then another. Let the Universe guide the way, but definitely take that action step.

A young 20 something couple enjoying a long-term interracial relationship. Here in 2018 what is it like to date interracially? How is interracial socializing and dating evolving? Are there ways that it is still the same? Race is a big deal in American society. Are we making progress? What about the education of black children? How are predominantly white institutions affecting black children's? In what ways is a Predominantly white institution doing well and in what ways does it fail black children?

Focus on the heart chakra. Breathe into it. Let all blockages evaporate. Let the Universe send stream after stream of whatever it is you want into your life. Allow. Focus on the mantra HAM, HAM, HAM. See it, feel it, be it. What will make you happy?

On Let's Talk About Race Nina Walcott-Wentzell. Nina and her husband Jerry are an interracial couple. A married couple for 25 years. 25 years of life together with 3 children. What are our stories about race. What are the stories we hear and know and tell ourselves. Nina's stories led her to a successful, happy, interracial marriage that still thrives today after 25 years of marriage. What are some of the stories you tell yourself? Do they make you happy about you, about your life? What about your stories?