What are Civil Rights?
Personal and property rights guaranteed by the Constitution and by law often used to refer to the fight for rights by marginalized communities.
What do we call a social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race?
Ethnicity
What percentage of Americans now say racism against Black people is widespread in U.S. according to a 2021 Gallup poll? 41%, 64%, 73%, 86%
64%
How many black governors have been elected in all of US history? 1, 3, 5, 10, 22, or 48
3, and Wes Moore just got elected this year.
Relative to entirely white neighborhoods, how much longer did residents of entirely black neighborhoods wait to vote on average? 12%, 17%, 29% or 33%
According to a Harvard and MIT study: 29% and they were also 74% more likely to spend more than thirty minutes at their polling place.
What do you think the percentage is of African American citizens of who voting age lack government-issued photo ID? 10%, 20%, 25 %
25% of voting age African Americans compared to 16% of Latinos & only 8% of whites.
What is a microaggression?
Discuss
True or False Working class white people whose head of household didn't even finish high school have more wealth on average than black families where they have college graduates as the head of household.
True--In fact it's 1/3 more wealth.
What's LGBTQIA?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual
How many of the 10 richest Americans are White?
10, seven of whom are among the 10 richest men in the world
What's the difference between equality and equity?
Discuss
What is systemic racism?
Systemic racism is the discriminatory actions in the educational system, the economic system, the health care system& the criminal justice system-Dr. C. Fleming
What is implicit bias?
It's when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
Think about book publishers, TV, film and music producers & execs & military leaders. What percent of them are white? In the 50, 70 or 90 percentiles?
In the 90s.
How can you be a force for positive change regarding bigotry?
Discuss
What was the Holocaust?
Term for Hitler's attempted genocide of European Jews during World War II; resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews.
In Georgia, over 53,000 VOTER registrations were held & those people weren't allowed to vote in 2018. What percent of those were Black voters? 50%, 60%, 70% or 80%?
70%
What percentage of African Americans say that there's Racial Inequality in Local Police Interactions? (according to a 2021 Gallop poll) 60%, 70%, 80%
80%
What is antisemitism?
It's hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
What is ableism?
It's discrimination in favor of able-bodied people and against those with disabilities.
The 3 Ds of discrimination are Delegitimize, dehumanizing & double standards. Give an example of delegitimizing a group or using a double standard against a group.
Discuss
Why do we include pronouns in our profiles?
Some people go by different pronouns like they or fae instead of she or he
What is tolerance?
It's a willingness to accept feelings, habits or beliefs that are different from your own