Vision of Washtenaw Faces Race:
WFR sees the existence of an intentionally inclusive community built upon a declaration of positive engagement and collective action, operating across all lines of difference to achieve democratic equity and racial justice.
Mission of Washtenaw Faces Race:
To ensure that Washtenaw County and its environs will strive to promote racial justice, by addressing, in perpetuity, the issue of racism within each of the following eleven major institutions through which it operates: Housing/Demographics, Economics/Wealth Accumulation, Law enforcement/Judiciary, Health care, Education, Politics, Culture, Transportation/Mobility, Agriculture/Food Access, Religion, and the Military – and simultaneously to promote racial justice on four primary levels of social activity: Personal (attitudes/beliefs), Relational (interpersonal interactions with others), Cultural, and Institutional.
Goals of Washtenaw Faces Race:
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WFR sees the existence of an intentionally inclusive community built upon a declaration of positive engagement and collective action, operating across all lines of difference to achieve democratic equity and racial justice.
Mission of Washtenaw Faces Race:
To ensure that Washtenaw County and its environs will strive to promote racial justice, by addressing, in perpetuity, the issue of racism within each of the following eleven major institutions through which it operates: Housing/Demographics, Economics/Wealth Accumulation, Law enforcement/Judiciary, Health care, Education, Politics, Culture, Transportation/Mobility, Agriculture/Food Access, Religion, and the Military – and simultaneously to promote racial justice on four primary levels of social activity: Personal (attitudes/beliefs), Relational (interpersonal interactions with others), Cultural, and Institutional.
Goals of Washtenaw Faces Race:
- Create, together with the larger community, self-perpetuating institutions designed to address and replace the existing structures of embedded racial hierarchy.
- Identify and assemble community leaders and organizations who are well-positioned to promote racial equity and to assist in this new institution-building process.
- Act via our spirit and personal commitment, as an inspirational well - force to motivate others towards the vision of a just and equitable society.
- Increase residents’ knowledge, establish a common analysis of racism, develop leaders and their skills, put race into the forefront of the consciousness of residents, and work with community organizations in a peer network.
- Focus on the structural system of white advantage developed historically and reinforced Institutionally, Ideologically, and Culturally.
To volunteer or learn more, please send us an email at: [email protected].