Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re group commitment Diversity, Inclusion, Bias

[Fred-List manager (fholson]

JoAnna Allen <jowooallen [at] verizon.net>
is the author of the message below.  It was posted by Fred of
the Cohousing-L management team <cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org>
It ws sent as html only which this listserv can not handle.

Also it had a very long quote which I shortened and added a link to
the original,

Fred

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This is so tempting, the kind of thing I enjoy exploring.  I have to
assume you have your three person's.  I was in Laird Schaub's
Integrative Facilitation two year training which has just one session
to go.   The whole topic is fascinating.  Good luck to you
BTW I am non-white and non-Black.

On Feb 27, 2023 12:10 PM, Kathleen Lowry <kathleenlowrylpcclmft [at] gmail.com> 
wrote:

    Hello again. I am taking a facilitation course, and would very much
    appreciate 3 people willing to participate in a 20 minute zoom
    conversation, this week on Thursday evening, if possible, or any Thursday
    in the next 8 weeks. Friday mornings, 9 am Central time, are also an
    option, including this week.

    Please let me know if you would like to join and timeframes that work for
    you.

    This week I am presenting for the discussion, a short excerpt on *white
    supremacy and Individuality* out of the updated Okum Article, *White
    Supremacy, Still Here*. 2021. For the entire original article, please go to
    http://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/.

    We will be discussing, in a very structured format, for 20 minutes only,
    this excerpt from that article that talks about the white supremist culture
    characteristic of individualism, and it includes examples, and suggestions.
    Please join us!
    Kathleen

    "Individualism* and I’m the Only One" (Page 20)

    These characteristics look at our cultural assumption that individualism is
    our cultural story -
    that we make it on our own (or should), without help, while pulling
    ourselves up by our own
    bootstraps. Our cultural attachment to individualism leads to a toxic
    denial of our essential
    interdependence and the reality that we are all in this, literally,
    together.
    Individualism shows up as:
    • for white people: seeing yourselves and/or demanding to be seen as an
    individual and not
    as part of the white group;
    • failure to acknowledge any of the ways dominant identities - gender,
    class, sexuality,
    religion, able-bodiedness, age, education to name a few - are informed by
    belonging to a
    dominant group that shapes cultural norms and behavior;

[ Rest of quoted long message deleted here - it can be see in archives at
http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/msg49096.html   Fred ]