Racial Justice
KFTC is working for a day when discrimination is wiped out of our laws, habits, and hearts.
Northern Kentucky members show "Get Out"
Members of the Northern Kentucky chapter hosted a film screening of Get Out, the acclaimed directorial debut of Jorand Peele. The film, which deals with race relations in the U.S. in a unique way, was a critical success last year, and was a great source of discussion.
Scott County members participate in 16th Annual MLK March!
For the 16th straight year, the Georgetown-Scott County NAACP Unit celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a march and program commemorating the legacy and message of the late civil rights leader. In the current environment that we are in, with growing income inequality, elected leaders playing to racial and religious differences, and a struggle to define what it means to be American, it was an important day to stand together.
Conversations to build racial understanding in Berea
One of the most persistent issues in the United States is learning how to support diverse communities. Our history has created a dynamic whereby our towns are enriched by many cultures and backgrounds, but our society is still reckoning with systemic and entrenched racism.
In November 2017, the Madison County KFTC Chapter’s Racial Justice Committee met and decided to expand its structure to include a community-building focus to its approach in addition to its more action-focused work. This work was spearheaded by members Wendy Warren (steering committee representative) and Shannon Roberts Smith.
The goal of the community-building focus of the Racial Justice Committee is to provide space for committee members and allies to form relationships outside of planning and implementing campaigns and/or actions. Also, they hope to broaden reach and encourage conversations that can be difficult for many members of the community who are new to racial justice work.
Carol Taylor-Shim leads KFTC staff in anti-oppression training
On Thursday, November 30, Carol Taylor-Shim led an Anti-Oppression training for KFTC’s staff team. Carol is currently the director of the Bias Incident Response team at the University of Kentucky, and has over a decade of experience in diversity, inclusion, and belonging and anti-racist/anti-oppression practice. She’s also a self-described “Liberation Superhero” (after this training, I would describe her that way, too). The training addressed the questions:
- What’s the difference between diversity, inclusion, and belonging?
- How does oppression impact people and environments?
- Why are people resistant?
- What are potential next steps for KFTC?
Northern Kentucky chapter joins Immigrant Dignity Coalition
Following the recent ICE raids across northern Kentucky, and the resulting work the chapter has engaged in to protect immigrant families in northern Kentucky, the Northern Kentucky KFTC Chapter was asked to become members of the Immigrant Dignity Coalition. This coalition, made up of 28 groups/organizations in northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati, consists of business, labor, civil rights and faith communities in the greater Cincinnati area that favor the dignity and basic human rights of all people. We are citizens and immigrants working together to share educational and advocacy tools to create a more just world.
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KFTC's Racial Justice Committee
KFTC's Racial Justice Committee helps ensure the organization is incorporating racial justice and anti-oppression into all of our work and strategies. The Racial Justice Committee’s work includes informing the membership on issues affecting racial justice, coordinating education and skill-building opportunities, and ensuring that racial justice principles are applied to all areas of KFTC’s program of work in an intersectional way. The Committee helps ensure KFTC is being a good ally and is working in solidarity with other organizations on these issues.
Where we stand
KFTC's Statement on Black Lives Matter - Why 'Black Lives Matter' matters
KFTC's Statement on Immigrants, Refugees, and Muslims
Resources
KFTC is launching a political education curriculum in 2021 where we will learn from abolitionist perspectives about defunding the police and moving toward our vision for ALL people to enjoy a better quality of life. Sign up to stay informed on when this curriculum will launch at cutt.ly/PoliEdSeries
VIDEOS
Unvictimizable: Fatphobia and Ableism as Weapons of Antiblack Violence with Professor Anna Mollow (32 minute video)
Lydia Brown on Disability Justice Intersection with Racial Justice and Queer/Trans Liberation (40 minute video)
ARTICLES
1619 Project – New York Times Magazine
400 years ago, in August 1619, a ship landed at a British colony in what is now Virginia carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. 250 years of slavery followed. On the 400th anniversary of the start of slavery in the U.S. the New York Times tries to truthfully tell the story of what happened then, and since.
Journal of Environmental Sociology on Intersections of disability justice, racial justice, and environmental justice (a bit academic, but very relevant)
Trump's Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History (Truth Out opinion piece)
A US Immigration Policy History of White Supremacy and Ableism (Aljazeera opinion piece)
Jim Crow’s Disabilities: Racial Injury, Immobility, and the Terrible Handicap in the Literature of James Weldon Johnson (Project Muse)
OTHER
Book recommendations from Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation
Fighting for Social Justice: The Power of Women of Color (a short timeline)
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