Tag: Tendaji Talks
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Tendaji Talk tackles critical race theory; 1619 Project creator to appear in Flint April 13
By Harold C. Ford “Any anti-racist effort is being labeled as critical race theory.” –Jonathan Chism, assistant professor of history, University of Houston-Downtown, co-editor of Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines, 2021, Lexington Books The most recent Tendaji Talk tackled the tough, divisive topic of critical race theory (CRT) during a 90-minute, virtual meeting of 15…
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Flint public schools’ confrontations with race and inequality inadequate, part of history and still an issue, Tendaji panel participants contend
By Jan Worth-Nelson Three generations of Flint residents who’ve been students in the Flint public schools agreed in a Tendaji Talk event Tuesday evening that they had not been adequately introduced to race or inequality issues in their education, and that they directly experienced the effects of systemic racism and inequality whether they understood it…
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Tendaji Talk: “The Deep Sting of Slavery”
By Harold C. Ford “It’s really not enough to say, ‘Those were horrible days and let them pass.’ Uncovering this buried history … could also help ease the kind of intergenerational trauma that silence can mask, trauma that can seep through entire communities.” –Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University professor, from “Healing Requires Truth” by Samantha Michaels,…
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Tendaji Talk panel asks and tries to answer: does White Christianity reinforce White supremacy?
By Harold Ford “We have to call out bad theology when it’s bad theology.” –Monica Villareal, pastor, Salem Lutheran Church, Flint “Much work to be done.” –Dan Scheid, rector St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Flint Does white Christianity reinforce white supremacy? Four area clerics tackled this tough topic on Zoom at the latest Tendaji Talk Dec.…
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Power of low income voters highlighted by Poor People’s Campaign reps at October Tendaji Talk
By Coner Segren The power of low-income voters was on display at the latest virtual installment of the Tendaji Talks held Oct. 13. During the 2016 presidential election, for example, the total number nationally of low-income voters was about 63 million. Of these, only 29 million voted, while 34 million stayed home. In Michigan during…
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Latinx community offers value not always recognized, Tendaji Talks presenter asserts
By Zach Neithercut In a city mostly comprised of white and African American residents, a minority some citizens may miss is the Latinx or Hispanic community, who make up about 3.9 percent of the population, according to the 2010 census. The March Tendaji Talk, presented by the organization Neighborhoods Without Borders at Longway Planetarium, attempted…
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White privilege through white eyes at Tendaji Talk: “Use it to end injustice”
By Harold C. Ford “If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.” — Ayelet Waldman, Israeli-American novelist and essayist Flint resident Jeff Bean stepped forward at the Flint…
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Understanding white privilege “like trying to explain water to a fish” at first 2019 Tendaji Talk
By Jan Worth-Nelson Trying to understand white privilege and power is “kind of like trying to explain water to a fish,” one panelist, a white woman, admitted to a circle of 25 Flint neighbors grappling with the kickoff topic of the 2019 Tendaji Talks Tuesday evening at the Flint Public Library. If you grow up…
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News Brief: Tendaji Talks on white power and privilege kick off March 19
The Tendaji Talks, sponsored by Flint’s Neighborhoods Without Borders, kicks off its spring series 6 p.m. March 19 at the Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St. Named for long-time community leader Tendaji W. Ganges, the series comprises discussions on systemic racism. The focus this season is white power and privilege, and what white people…
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Tendaji forum highlights inequality, racism and why people don’t vote
By Paul Rozycki As part of the Tendaji Talks, the Flint Public Library hosted the first of a series of presentations sponsored by Neighborhoods Without Borders on “Racism and the Midterm Election.,” Tuesday evening. Two speakers highlighted the connection between the denial of voting rights, the loss of power, and economic inequality. Hubert Roberts, a…
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