In 2016 we began talking about living in a post-racial America. As we enter the end of the Trump presidency in 2020, we are more divided, if not by race, then by tribe.

We can call it tribalism: it takes some of the sting away, but the inclination remains the same. Insensitivity, indifference, and intolerance are the building blocks of fear and hate, bigotry, and prejudice, without exception, them, and us.

Eradicating racism has as much strength as legislating anti-racist policies which most have begun to understand as systemic racism.

We have a better plan, a method perhaps understood as a practice that when used daily can shift us all back to a pre-political climate.

It is called learning the foundation of mindful communication and using it as a practice will allow us to become more sensitive towards others, mindful of our words and commentary, and above all else, learn how to talk to all others regardless of race, religion, creed, ethnicity, or nationality.

Mindful Communication in our system is a three-phase process.

Race Talk™

Race Talk‚™ is a structured program designed to provide collective course work from the perspective of a Sociologist, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Historian, Humanitarian, and Spiritualist aimed to teach anti-racism.

WHAT IS THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE OF RACE TALK™?

We have developed different presentations that focus on 1) diversity, 2) racial equity, 3) implicit bias

4) spiritual awareness of racial and social injustice. This program format is different from our general

Race Talk™ series because it takes a leap into mystical arts, spirituality, and divination.

WHY RACE TALK™?

Why not…for years certified diversity training programs have focused on teaching tolerance. The cartoon

characters above are trapped in a space where they are not permitted to learn about the others’ race,

ethnicity, nationality or culture. Race Talk‚™ is a comprehensive training program that unplugs issues of

bigotry, implicit bias, diversity, mindful communication, racial equity, racism, and social equity.

The participants have to be willing to: GROW. EVOLVE. CHANGE.

EXCERPT:

While Black scholars in the Unites States have thoroughly examined the link between racism and colorism, there is paucity of information tracing the historical roots of skincolor discrimination in India.

Although dark skin is perceived to be disadvantageous for both men and women, studies have reported that Black women seem to suffer from double jeopardy. That is, women are likely to be in a more disadvantageous position than men where color of skin is concerned.

In context of work settings, dark-skinned women receive more rejections than equally qualified dark-skinned men (Nagr, 2018).

The United States is developing a triracial system with whites at the top; an intermediary group of honorary whites, similar to the coloreds in South Africa during formal apartheid; and a nonwhite group or the collective BlackÑ at the bottom. Nakano, 2009).

Critical Race Theory (CRT), is the view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed

and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it. (Curry, 2018)

Further, Critical Race Theory movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies

take up but places them in a broader perspective that includes economics, historyy, and even feelings and the unconscious.

Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step by step progress, critical race theory questions the

very foundation of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism and the principles of constitutional law.

Critical Race Theory was developed out of legal scholarship. It provides a critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view.

Since its inception within legal scholarship, CRT has spread to many disciplines. CRT has basic tenets that guide its framework. These tenets are interdisciplinary and can be approached from different branches

of learning. (Delgado, 2013)

In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, the subject of Critical Race Theory emerged as a comprehensive and collective

approach for historians teaching what really happened post slavery to black Americans. While most history books include

post-civil war struggles that Negroes had regarding civil rights, discrimination, fair housing, and jobs, it left behind the painful

stories about Black Wall street in Oklahoma for one, that signified structural and systemic racism. This material was not included

in the academic text of elementary, secondary and most higher education institutions.

The clash of white parents against teachers, school boards, and administrators was to resist Critical Race Theory to be taught to

their children with the fear that their children would begin to hate their whiteness. This became a political debate between red

and blue states and, democrats and republicans, progressives and conservatives. Teaching white students about the incident of

Black Wall street in Oklahoma and other racial and social atrocities was bit too much and white parents didn’t want their children

expose to this new knowledge, for fear that it would cause some to have a more critical view on white America.

1. What is the significance of race in contemporary American society?

2. Where, in what ways, and to what end does race appear in dominant American culture and shape

the ways we interact with one another?

3. Do you think that teachers should teach all aspects of American History, regardless of parent protest?