Walking Sacred Ground #ecct

Christ Church, Easton & St. Peter's, Monroe have begun a journey walking Sacred Ground. Beginning to talk about race, healing, and reconciliation.

In our first meeting we looked at (and discussed) clips from these videos:

Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk?
Beverly Daniel Tatum | TEDxStanford
Published on May 19, 2017

"When her 3-year-old son told her that a classmate told him that his skin was brown because he drank chocolate milk, Dr. Tatum, former president of Spelman College and a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service, was surprised. As a clinical psychologist, she knew that preschool children often have questions about racial difference, but she had not anticipated such a question. But through conversations with her preschool son, followed by talking to teachers, colleagues and parents, she came to realize it is the things we don’t say and the matters we don’t discuss with our children that find their way into racist dialogue and thinking.’"

The Brain with David Eagleman - Episode 5: Why Do I Need You? November 11, 2015

In ‘Why Do I Need You?’ Dr. David Eagleman explores how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive. This neural interdependence begins at birth. Dr. David Eagleman invites a group of babies to a puppet show to showcase their ability to discern who is trustworthy, and who isn’t. In groups humans have accomplished great things but there’s a darker side. For every ‘in group’ there is an ‘out group’. Dr. David Eagleman’s lab has shown that at an unconscious level our brains care less about members of the ‘out group.’ He journeys to modern day Bosnia to hear about what happened in 1992-1995 when genocide returned to Europe. At Srebrenica he learns that over eight thousand men, women and children were massacred by their fellow Yugoslavian citizens, the Serbs, many of whom had been their neighbors. What could have allowed for such horrific group on group violence? He believes that neuroscience offers an important perspective.

I Am Not your Negro
January 15, 2018 

I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.