Race:

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Chapter 8

• Race
• Beyond Stereotypes to the American Dream

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Discrimination

• Discrimination
• ____________________________________
  ____________________________________
• Motivated by prejudice fueled by power
• Based on ethnicity, gender, creed, socio-economic
  status
• Discrimination is the ___________________

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3 current examples

• ______________
• Difference between the amount paid to different
  groups of people for their work.
• ____________________
• Lack of funding in certain districts lower
  expectations (crippling effect)
• ____________________
• Unjust lending practices lease agreements
• Contribute to other examples of societal
  discrimination

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Cycle of Exclusion

• ______________? _________________? Discriminatory
  actions ? _____________ ____________________
• As this cycle continues, society becomes more
  entrenched in exclusion and reduces its respect
  for human dignity

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The Sin of Racism

• a personal sin and social disorder rooted in the
  belief that one race is superior to another. It
  involves not only prejudice but also the use of
  religious, social, political, economic, or
  historic power to keep one race privileged
• Moving Beyond Racism, 2000.
• Racism ? __________________________

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Racism the fruit of exclusion

• Despite an end to legalized slavery and
  segregation, ________________________
• Racism is an evil that endures in our society
  and our Church. Despite apparent advances and
  even significant changes the reality of racism
  remains. In large part it is only external
  appearances that have changed
• Brothers and Sisters to Us, 1979

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• Racism is a sin a sin that divides the human
  family, blots out the image of God among specific
  members of that family, and violates the
  fundamental human dignity of those called to be
  children of the same Father. Racism is the sin
  that says some human beings are inherently
  superior and others essentially inferior because
  of races. It is the sin that makes racial
  characteristics the determining factor for the
  exercise of human right. It mocks the words of
  Jesus "Treat others the way you have them treat
  you." Indeed, racism is more than a disregard for
  the words of Jesus it is a denial of the truth
  of the dignity of each human being revealed by
  the mystery of the Incarnation. 
• Brothers and Sisters, 1979

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Jesus and Humanity

• John 11-18
• __________________________________________________
  _
• Incarnation the Word became flesh
• Through his birth as a human, Jesus gives the
  greatest example of inclusion
• __________________________________________________
  _
• Fully realized in the crucifixion event
• Philippians 21-11
• _____________________________
• Demonstrates true inclusion

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The Good Samaritan

• Luke 1030-37
• When asked _________________? Jesus responded
  with this parable
• Example of loving despite differences
• Mutual hatred of Jews and Samaritans
• Dating back to the Diaspora
• ______________________________
• All are part of Gods creation
• Command of Jesus
• ______________________
• We must treat all with compassion and love

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The Woman at the Well

• John 44-42
• Important passage in many respects
• ____________________
• whoever drinks the water I shall give will never
  thirst
• my food is to do the will of the one who sent me
  and to finish his work
• Importance of _____________________
• As an ____________
• As a ______________
• As a _______________
• Powerful example of ____________

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The Vine and the Branches

• John 151-17
• Image of the Kingdom of God
• _________________
• Union with Christ equals life
• ____________________
• Removes those who do not bear fruit
• ____________________
• whoever remains in me and I in him will bear
  much fruit
• you are my friends if you do what I command you
• Commandment
• This I command you love one another
• _______________________

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Dwell in My Love

• Written by Francis Cardinal George
• _______________________________________
  _______________________________________
• Outlined the evils of racism and its impact on
  the ____________________
• Three main sections
• Dwelling Together
• Example of the Trinity
• Present Situation
• Future Direction

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Dwelling Together

• ____________________
• Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• God, the Creator
• __________________________________________
• Jesus, the Lord
• __________________________________________
• The Holy Spirit
• __________________________________________

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Present Situation

• Strong parish loyalty
• ________________
• Positive impact on Chicagoland Area
• Negative aspect of ___________________________
• Factors / concerns related to neighborhoods
• ___________
• ___________
• Blind people of the responsibility to dwell
  together in love
• _______________________________________

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Dwelling Together

• As the answer to the question, Where are you
  from? becomes more complicated, we should
  realize that the future of race relations in
  Chicago and its surrounding communities is tied
  to how willing we are as Catholics to live and
  worship in parishes that are diverse communities
  of faith, anchoring neighborhoods where all
  people can live together as members of the one
  human family.

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Four Types of Racism

• New form of Racism today
• Overt racism easily condemned
• More subtle forms covert
• ________________
• ________________
• ________________
• ________________

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Spatial Racism

• Spatial Racism
• Refers to patterns of metropolitan development
  in which some affluent whites create racially and
  economically segregated suburbs or gentrified
  areas of cities, leaving the poor -- mainly
  African Americans, Hispanics and some newly
  arrived immigrants -- isolated in deteriorating
  areas of the cities and older suburbs.
• ________________________________________
• Contributes to violence and other negative
  personal interaction
• ________________________________________
• Quality dignity of life based on neighborhood

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Institutional Racism

• Institutional Racism
• Patterns of social and racial superiority
  continue as long as no one asks why they should
  be taken for granted. People who assume,
  consciously or unconsciously, that white people
  are superior create and sustain institutions that
  privilege people like themselves and habitually
  ignore the contributions of other peoples and
  cultures.
• Can be _____________________________

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Internalized Racism

• Internalized Racism
• Because of their socialization within the
  dominant racial and cultural system, people of
  color can come to see themselves and their
  communities primarily through the eyes of that
  dominant culture. They receive little or no
  information about their own history and culture
  and perceive themselves and their communities as
  culturally deprived.
• _______________________________
• Oppressed groups begin to feel that they are
  destined to be oppressed

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Individual Racism

• Individual Racism
• individual racism perpetuates itself quietly
  when people grow up with a sense of white racial
  superiority, whether conscious or unconscious.
  Racist attitudes find expression in racial slurs,
  in crimes born of racial hatred and in many
  other subtle and not so subtle ways. People that
  are horrified by the Ku Klux Klan might quite
  readily subscribe to racial stereotypes about
  people of color.
• Racial hierarchy
• _________________________________
  _________________________________

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Envisioning Our Future

• How can we dwell together?
• Dwelling with God in ordinary life
• ____________________________________
• ____________________________________
• ____________________________________
• Dwelling with God in His Church
• ____________________________________
• ____________________________________

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What can we do?

• Building Inclusive Communities
• ________________________________________________
  ________________________________________________
• Therefore, let the Church proclaim to all that
  the sin of racism defiles the image of God and
  degrades the sacred dignity of humankind which
  has been revealed by the mystery of the
  Incarnation. Let all know that it is a terrible
  sin that mocks the cross of Christ and ridicules
  the Incarnation. For the brother and sister of
  our Brother Jesus Christ are brother and sister
  to us.
• Brothers and Sisters, 1979.

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Inclusion through conversion

• In order to build an inclusive society, we must
  redefine who and who does not belong
• _______________________
• Prophetic message from the Hebrew Scriptures
• We must, as individuals, look at our own values
  and ________________________ _____________________
  ____________

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Working for inclusion

• Re-examining our attitudes is only the beginning,
  __________________________
• Must occur on the ____________________
  ___________________________________
• Individual actions ? __________________

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Toward a Community of Love

• the fullness of love and community will be
  achieved only when Gods work in Christ comes to
  completion in the Kingdom of God. This kingdom
  has been inaugurated among us, but Gods
  redeeming and transforming work in not yet
  complete.
• ___________________________
• Church as the community of ___________