What are ideas of what we each can do to help address the issues in our society?
- Join our upcoming two-part Book Discussion: The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
We will have a book discussion of Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond.
Discussion groups to be held Wednesdays, June 14 and July 12, at 7 p.m. at Kenilworth Union Church in the Culbertson Room. Register here if you would like to participate.
What are ideas of what we each can do to help address the issues in our society?
- Increase our understanding of the challenges and barriers faced by Blacks:
- Study past history
- Understand the Black Experience
- Read one of the recommended books
- Caste—The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Join the Sacred Ground discussion group
- Get involved with or support an organization working to breakdown the barriers to inequality
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
John Steinbeck
We are all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.
Beau Taplin
Sometimes being understanding is more important than being right. Sometimes we need not a brilliant mind that speaks but a patient heart that listens. Not a keen eye that always sees faults but open arms that accept. Not a finger that points out mistakes but gentle hands that lead. Pavithra Ram
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