Dismantling White Supremacy Culture Resource of the Month
For this month’s MidAmerica Messenger Dismantling White Supremacy resource, a series of questions will lead you to the resource.
First, you must go inward to go outward. The journey of dismantling white supremacy starts with self. As you go within, with education and reflection, in the endeavor to deconstruct white supremacy, while raising your own humane, anti-racist consciousness, a multitude of questions arise. Wrestling with those questions, so that the change is sustainable, requires that you go inward so that you can then go outward towards beloved community.
Question: Have you taken time to journal, reflect, create, in a contemplative way about the changes that are happening within you as you seek to dismantle white supremacy?
Second, go outward. When we go outward towards embodied community, keep covenant at the heart, the center. Our Unitarian Universalist covenant-centered communities, strengthened by challenging and mutual practices that embolden hope, love, justice, courage, and joy are the creative ground of deep and sustained change. Remember, we aren’t changing to suit a current idea, this change must happen, and be forevermore, for us to grow as beloveds companioning towards beloved community.
Question: Have you found and invested in circles within circles of community to outwardly express, and be changed by, this soulful work of dismantling white supremacy?
The outward, communal, lifegiving, circle of community is our Association of Unitarian Universalist congregations. Thankfully, there are transformative experiences to access
Then go further…take part, and recruit others, to go on a creative dive into an exploration of interdependence in theology and practice as we navigate a new path to liberation together.
Hoping to encounter you on the journey,
Nancy Combs-Morgan, CRE-ML
Congregational Life Consultant, MidAmerica and Southern Regions of the UUA
ncombsmorgan@uua.org