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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Valerie Rutstein (212) 312-3796
Released: January 6, 1998
Title: Workshop Series on Racial Ally Building to be Held at the Baha'i
Center.
A workshop series offered by Healing Racism, Inc. will be held at the New York Baha'i
Center on February 6-8, 1998. Through readings, videos, lectures,
discussions and group activities the 12 sessions will examine the root causes of racism
and analyze its public manifestations.
Mrs. Betty Turko, the workshop facilitator, explains that this program takes the
approach that people are not inherently racist. Racism and prejudice are things that we
are taught and therefore can be untaught. Mrs. Turko is a trained facilitator of Healing
Racism, Inc. and also heads an organization called Getting Interracial/Cultural Families
Together (GIFT) in Lakewood, N.J. She is African-American, and her husband is
Caucasian.
Session topics are as follows:
Part A: How good people are conditioned to participate in the
mistreatment of others
- Class 1- Exploring the concept of inferior/superior races
Class 2- Racial prejudice versus racism-- understanding the difference.
Class 3- Keys to perpetuating oppression- the cycle of racial conditioning.
Class 4- The disempowerment of male children--the cycle of conditioning male children to
participate in oppression.
Part B: How the disease of racism is manifested
- Class 5- Stereotypes and unconscious racism--how they shape our thinking and emotional
reactions.
Class 6- Acting out-- what happens when people act out racial conditioning.
Class 7- Institutionalized racism--making one's racial prejudices law.
Class 8- Internalized oppression.
Part C: Healing racism: a beginning
- Class 9- Reclaiming our cultural heritage--a pathway to oneness.
Class 10-The oneness of humanity-- unity in diversity.
Class 11- Ally-building as a way to heal.
Class 12- The imperative of dismantling racism.
Healing Racism, Inc. is a national not-for-profit organization unaffiliated with any
religious organization whose mission is to promote the recognition and the internalization
of the reality of the oneness of humanity by developing a national network to educate
citizens to recognize racism and the internalized oppression of racism; to heal the
disease and the wounds of racism
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