“Let’s talk race and racism” podcast/discussion

The Committee on Minority Affairs (CMA) launches its podcast/discussion series “Let’s Talk Race and Racism”, engaging members and the broader St. Louis community in fostering togetherness, developing shared language, and building comfort and courage to better discuss race and racism. 

Hoping to help people understand how to take personal action to build their own race consciousness and to move toward a more diverse and inclusive Local Section in response to many national conversations such as #BlackoutSTEM and in response to the cries for justice for the loss of unarmed Black lives.

We ask all members and the community to come prepared to listen, learn, engage, be uncomfortable and possibly abandon their own ideas for new ones as they hear vulnerable conversation from primarily people of color. 

Register here for one, several, or all of the events in this series. You will receive a Zoom invite for the events you select.

Today, Part 5:

The topic and organization today has been changed to address last week’s incident at the US Capitol.
 

Topic: Reflections on America’s Disparate Responses to Riot
Description: January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed a planned targeted attack on our US Capitol in an act that many are calling an insurrection and attempt to overrun the government and circumvent the will of the America people as members of Congress certified the November 3rd election results. As the images exploded from Washington it was hard not to notice the stark difference in police and military presence before, during and after the Capitol attacks in comparison to Black Lives Matter and other protests organized by people of color. So let’s talk.