(Name-mce) ListServ Guidelines for selecting trainers to undo racism

[Ssbernabei at aol.com]

Gail Golden is an insightful member of the AntiRacist Alliance and made these 
suggestions.   I thought that others might find them helpful.
peace
Sandy Bernabei


Guidelines for choosing trainers
 to address cultural diversity, racism and issues of equity   
    By Gail Golden 


1.     The training team should be diverse, multicultural and multiracial. 
One person cannot address all issues.

2.     The trainer should have a “power analysis.” This means that they need 
to go beyond speaking about individual bias and prejudice based on skin color 
to a deeper analysis of how those who hold conscious or unconscious beliefs, 
prejudice and bias based on skin color also hold power and therefore control 
access to power through organizations and institutions.

3.     The trainers must emphasize systemic, organization and institutional 
manifestations of inequity rather than emphasizing bias manifested in 
interpersonal relationships.

4.     The trainers must teach to the political, economic, and social 
constructs that intentionally, consciously or unconsciously, perpetuate inequity in 
the educational system.

5.     In addition to a theoretical understanding, the trainers should have 
an orientation to accountability through working directly with community 
stakeholders in addressing these important issues.

6.     The trainers should teach extensively to the phenomenon of dominant 
culture and its manifestations in organizations.

7.     The trainers should have a history of providing successful trainings 
to organizations and institutions around systemic change regarding equity.




Sandy Bernabei
www.antiracistalliance.com
a movement to undo structural racism