{"id":826,"date":"1998-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1998\/01\/06\/workshop-series-on-racial-ally-building-to-be-held-at-the-bahai-center\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:01:29","slug":"workshop-series-on-racial-ally-building-to-be-held-at-the-bahai-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1998\/01\/06\/workshop-series-on-racial-ally-building-to-be-held-at-the-bahai-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Series on Racial Ally Building to be Held at the Baha’i Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Baha’i Community Center
\nof New York City
\nPress Release – 06 January 1998<\/h3>\n

<\/center>For national or international stories, please contact the United States National Center’s Office of Public Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> Valerie Rutstein (212) 312-3796<\/p>\n

Released: <\/strong>January 6, 1998<\/p>\n

Title: Workshop Series on Racial Ally Building to be Held at the Baha’i Center.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n

A workshop series offered by Healing Racism, Inc. will be held at the New York Baha’i Center on February 6-8, 1998<\/strong>. Through readings, videos, lectures, discussions and group activities the 12 sessions will examine the root causes of racism and analyze its public manifestations.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 She is African-American, and her husband is Caucasian.<\/p>\n

Session topics are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part A:<\/strong> How good people are conditioned to participate in the mistreatment of others <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
Class 1- Exploring the concept of inferior\/superior races
\nClass 2- Racial prejudice versus racism– understanding the difference.
\nClass 3- Keys to perpetuating oppression- the cycle of racial conditioning.
\nClass 4- The disempowerment of male children–the cycle of conditioning male children to participate in oppression.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Part B: How the disease of racism is manifested<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Class 5- Stereotypes and unconscious racism–how they shape our thinking and emotional reactions.
\nClass 6- Acting out– what happens when people act out racial conditioning.
\nClass 7- Institutionalized racism–making one’s racial prejudices law.
\nClass 8- Internalized oppression.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Part C: Healing racism: a beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Class 9- Reclaiming our cultural heritage–a pathway to oneness.
\nClass 10-The oneness of humanity– unity in diversity.
\nClass 11- Ally-building as a way to heal.
\nClass 12- The imperative of dismantling racism.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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<\/p>\n

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