Anti-Racism Initiatives

"Our long-tern commitment to racial justice and reconciliation is embedded in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. We will still be doing it when the news cameras are long gone."

The Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church​​

Evolution of Systemic Racism

Tuesdays, October 5 - November 9  |  6:30pm-8:30pm on Zoom

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” 
George Santayana

Did You Know?

• 1987 | McCleskey V Kemp made racial profiling constitutional
• 1989 | Graham v Connor - "The 'reasonableness' of a particular use of force by police must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight."
• 1957 | Black folks killed by police between 2013 and 2019. 164 have been killed in the first 8 months of 2020. “Living While Black” – walking through campus, hiking, taking a nap, picnicking in public park, driving home from church, selling lemonade, buying food at Wendy’s.
• 6500 Black folks were lynched between the beginning of Reconstruction and 1950. There were eleven documented lynchings since 1950.​

​Come join the conversation as we trace the history of American Exceptionalism and the laws passed and systems created to protect that Exceptionalism and its Anglo-Saxon origins.

Presented by Pastor Everett Mitchell and Leanne ​Puglielli, we will study a timeline that traces the historic roots of American Exceptionalism including:

• the historic justification for slavery beginning with Aristotle in 348 BCE
• the historic roots of the superiority of Anglo-Saxon blood and institutions beginning with Tacitus in 99 CE
• the influence of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery beginning in the 1100’s CE

We will examine the evolution of American Exceptionalism and the laws passed to protect the dominance of Anglo-Saxon institutions and blood. While there are many stories and histories that could be examined, these conversations will focus on those systems and structures that have resulted in wealth disparities, mass incarceration, and the unchecked killing of Black People.

​Register by sending an email to Leanne at leanne.puglielli@gmail.com