City of Decatur Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Jane Elliott

On August 27, 2020 the City of Decatur and its Better Together Advisory Board kicked off their Anti-Racism Speaker Series with internationally known teacher, lecturer, and diversity trainer, Jane Elliot.
The series was designed to generate awareness of equity concerns in the city and to hold the city and community accountable for meeting established goals and implementing policies to achieve the aspiration of being an inclusive, equitable and just city. It seeks to mine the knowledge and wisdom of numerous thought leaders to challenge and inspire our community to take actionable steps to instill anti-racism throughout our norms and practices.
Additional details may be found at decaturga.com/speakerseries.

[@zechariahmckenzie7557]

Oh man!!! Jane is the best ally I swear.

[@NAVYABHAN]

"Right's,Respect,Responsibility!" I love that phrase,and it will become a part of my expression's and act's towards other's.

[@troybutler426]

We have no rites, we get no respect and we still have nothing and we thanking her for still continuing to be permanent beggars on earth. Good speech ,but not a solution for the problem because it's still hear... Don't be fooled

[@sharonkaysnowton]

I love Jane Elliott. She always tells it like it is.

[@kneerobe8409]

@Sharonkaysnowton • 8M Ago 💬 WISTON CHURCHILL'S Lad Of AFL CIO 🥷🏿 Spanish Inquisition Jain Eliot I Don't Believe These Are Spanish people When There Not Old Smooth Spanish They Are New Spanish Language 💬

[@harveyaustin9982]

Amazing!! Jane Elliott

[@entertainmenttv9008]

May God bless you Jane.

[@kneerobe8409]

🛡@Entertainmentv9008 • 2y Ago 💬 👼🏾 Utopian Overcomers

[@michaelmiller7350]

Was looking at Roland Martin and was awe struck with your command of the English language Mrs. Elliott. Not simply because I'm in agreement, because the research lines up. Ironically most long term prisoners live and breath this information and has been passed down in there since the 1960s. Its being pumped from the inside out but the general population looks at the convicted of the system like enemies to the human race, and some are. But me myself was one young man criminalized and recorded with record before I even understood my rights. Short story shorter, its alot more of us hip to whats happening than the common working Moe of us can imagine. You see the evidence. We woke!

[@Andria101988]

This is great

[@rianalauren]

Great presentation. Come to the Lucy's Children which is part of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture.

[@user-te8of1pj8q]

🗽. #OnlyAccountability.

[@lawrencehamilton5959]

Thats why thy found permeds in missispe

[@NYmomAdrienne3915]

Let me explain where I come from and my reason to be against this teaching in Anti Racism. My daughter is the result of “white” and “not white”. Now people want her to see us different when she never did causing angst in the family life. She also has the ancestral “privilege” of the Armenian Genocide. Learning true accurate history is something I have no issues with. The race conflict view of life is what I take issue with. I love different cultures and agree the US is like a stew. We aren’t the same but have our own flavors to make something beautiful together. The theories applied (and it is not the academic CRT) says the stew is always in conflict and one vegetable is oppressive and all the other vegetables are oppressed. That is racism no matter how you look at it. I agree “white” and “black” are made up. We are all human. This ideology says we are different and certain vegetables are oppressive by nature not nurture. I am also adopted. This theory says my sister (not white by society) and myself are apparently in non stop conflict. No. We are sisters. Sometimes adopted kids are closer than biological ones I have found. It’s nurture. If you were raised not to look at the world through a lens of race (obviously you can see it) then most likely you are not racist. This theory bashes my family I grew up in and created. My family is not a conflict theory. I actually score low on “privilege” tests. I grew up with people saying we can’t be sisters. My family has been stereotyped by “war on terror”, we eat Middle Eastern food since my family is a stew. This teaches my child we are not equal partners in relationships. This ideology will turn a non-racist view of the world my child has to a race based and therefore racist view instead. Our family fights are not from race but the same stuff you homogeneous families do, trust me..(except for the “white” progressives, so it’s good when they aren’t there for Christmas imho)

[@FASBLAQUE]

How very noble of you, but when you say you don't see race you are lying. You do see race, and by saying you don't see race you are not allowing the individual to be who they are. They are this made up person in your mind that doesn't actually exist.

[@calypsohandjack9278]

Reported for promoting Terrorism.