Please join us for our monthly Race Conversations meeting at Waterbury Public Library on Tuesday, January 21, 6:30-7:30.

We will be discussing Chapter 7 of Ijeoma Oluo's book, _So You Want to Talk about Race?_. This chapter is called "How can I talk about affirmative action?" She shares about her own journey and then systematically dismantles five arguments against affirmative action.

In his recent book, _How to be an Anti-Racist_, Ibram X. Kendi writes: "Since the 1960s, racist power has commandeered the term "racial discrimination," transforming the act of discriminating on the basis of race into an inherently racist act. But if racial discrimination is defined as treating, considering, or making a distinction based in favor or against an individual based on that person's race, then racial discrimination is not inherently racist. The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist. Someone reproducing inequity through permanently assisting an overrepresented racial group into wealth and power is entirely different than someone challenging that inequity by temporarily assisting an underrepresented racial group into relative wealth and power until equity is reached. The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination" (p. 19).

Please consider joining us. All are welcome, whether you have read the chapter or not.

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