Conversation Starters?
/What is a good “Conversation Starting” question or phrase to open up the dialogue on addressing racism?
You want to get the conversation on race started? Here are monthly questions designed to help you have an open and honest dialogue, with friends, family, and/or community. This is a platform for you to address undoing racism.
Measuring Racism
/Can racism be measured? Are statistics needed when having conversations about it and when trying to understand it?
You & Racism
/When it comes to racism are you holding yourself accountable? Are you doing the research to understand it? Does you think that you should?
Net Neutrality and Race?
/Is Net Neutrality a Social Justice issue? How does the Social Justice community protect its community from the censorship problems that can arise?
Politics & Race
/Is racism bi-partisan or does it transcend it?
Mascots are racist?
/When a marginalized people’s image is being used for sports entertainment, yet, it hurts the perception of the community - especially its youth what responsibility does society have in addressing such a serious matter? If the marginalized community asks society to stop due to the racial history surrounding the mascot - isn’t society supposed to cease such harmful actions?
Does racism have longevity?
/Will racism always exist? Do you believe that it can never be erased?
Conversation Ready?
/Are you equipped to have “the Conversation?” If so, what strategies or methods do you use?
If you are not ready - why not?
Thanksgiving or Thanks-Taking?
/Thanksgiving has become a controversial holiday due to its original origins. Should the holiday be renamed, its meaning re-vamped or should it just be stopped being practiced all together?
Race and Hair?
/How do we address the way that racism affects how people are treated because their hair may be too “ethnic?”
Corporate Cultural Appropriation
/Should corporations be held accountable for advertisements, commercials, and other media venues that utilize and capitalize off of marginalized communities identity, by culturally appropriating them? Why or Why not? If yes, what should that accountability look like?
Racism in Families
/How do you handle racist situations with family members that display the behavior - implicitly or intentionally?
Go back to where you came from?
/Is telling someone to go back to where their ancestors came from (i.e. Africa, Mexico, etc) racist? Why or why not?
Reparations?
/Should the topic of Reparations be a topic discussed on the election platform?
Environmental Racism
/How do we as a society combat environmental injustices? As we speak to date, the Standing Rock Reservation is fighting to stop the transfer of oil up under their main water source (i.e. Missouri Rives) and residents of Flint Michigan still does not have access to clean water; they are still in crisis.
Reverse racism?
/Do you know what reverse racism is? How has this term effected you personally?
History Lesson! Independent research.
/What was the Age of Exploration and what was its lasting effects on the Indigenous populations of the Americas? Do up think that this past global event affects you in some shape or form?
For Parents!
/Are you having “the conversation” with your child(ren)? If so, when did you start? If not, why not?
Race, conversation and your child?
/Are you having the conversation on racism with your child/ren?
Latino voice?
/Why are we as a nation not inclusive and empathetic to the plight of the Latino community? When they ask for help why do we not listen and/or help?