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Professor Gates teaches all of us (again!)

on Sun, 2019-11-10 13:22

"Southern 'Redeemers' snuffed out the first Black Power movement" 

From 2000 duly elected African American officials to zero in just 12 years - how gains of Reconstruction were obliterated, and only 70 years later did the damage too slowly begin to reverse. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/jim-crow-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Gates' book, Stony The Road, is an even more shocking and thorough walk through this period of history we were never taught.

Thought-provoking Case Studies During 2nd Gathering of 2019

on Mon, 2019-10-07 13:50

Fifty women beta-tested four different case studies over dinner on July 11th. All four case studies were inspired by our April trip to Alabama as well as stories told to me by women within the 130 women strong Principle Quest community. None of these case studies have simple solutions or a 'right' answer. The hoped-for-outcome is to learn how to have a dialogue, not a debate, and how to build relationships. As Daniel Yankelovich described the need for dialogue in his book The Magic of Dialogue,

If the values of reciprocity, stewardship, responsibility, citizenship, civic virtue, and love

Reflections from our July Trip to Alabama

on Tue, 2019-08-13 00:39

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 

                                                                                                                                    — Maya Angelou

A second group of six women arrived in Selma and Montgomery on July 23, and by the time we left on July 25, we were changed  -– forever. Here are brief excerpts from our reflections upon returning home. A longer version has been shared with the twenty incredible women we met during our time in Alabama.

Refuting 'The Downside of Diversity' My Letter to the Wall Street Journal

on Sat, 2019-08-10 00:06

The Wall Street Journal published a shortened version of my letter to the editor August 9-10, 2019 refuting Kronman's 'The Downside of Diversity' here. In case you cannot access it, here is the unedited version:

Mr. Kronman’s “The Downside of Diversity” August 3-4, 2019 is cleverly constructed to convince, but also ignores America’s own history. Diversity is not the equivalent of identity politics, much as that would help him convince us.