cancel culture

The Journey Towards a Healthy White Identity

Dec 6, 2020

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness

Black Empowerment Controversy, cancel culture, fear, G.I. Bill, James Baldwin, Jim Crow, Middle-class, Rev. C. T. Vivian, school to prison pipeline, slavery, Survival strategies, White identity development stages, white privilege

Today, we are talking about the social identity of white people in America and how it can be lived in a way that promotes healing and justice. But since both race and class factor into this—since both intersect and mutually reinforce each other—we must talk about middle-class identity in America also. We must talk about…