Posted on 01/18/2022 12:37:10 PM PST by Chainmail
This was featured on the Cherry Republic website which ostensibly is for selling cherry products:
Opening Hearts & Minds
Mary Won September 4, 2020
It may seem to some that Northern Michigan is far-removed from the heated debates about racial equity happening around the country. But a recent incident with our local county commission pointed a harsh spotlight on us, and it illuminated the very real need for racial education in our corner of the world.
Seth, who acts as co-facilitator along with Elizabeth Wolff, has been met by overwhelmingly positive comments from participants across the region and is currently taking registrations for Session 3, which will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 18.
...Cherry Republic has provided a $6,000 grant, and I encourage others to pitch in however they can to help support this worthwhile endeavor.
Northern Michigan towns may be small, but I believe our hearts are big."
..Still, it’s no secret that Northern Michigan is overwhelmingly white, and it’s up to us to educate ourselves about the realities of life as a person of color in America. To that end, local advocacy group Title Track — whose past work has included programs to support clean water and empower youth — recently created a training course entitled Understanding Racial Justice. Title Track founder, musician, and activist Seth Bernard describes the five-week Zoom course as a transformative community- and capacity-building experience that supports the quest to join the movement for racial justice. It is appropriate for white people who have had little to no prior antiracism or anti-oppression training. Themes explored include race, racism, privilege, identity, solidarity, accountability, oppression, liberation; as well as cultural trauma and healing, and what it means to become an embodied antiracist white person. The third week includes creative and somatic practice that supports integration."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.cherryrepublic.com ...
There's no heated debate. Race is an issue that cannot be debated.
Wonder what the response would be if blacks were told that they need to understand the reality of white and poor in the US — as in understanding the life of a coal miner in WV or that of a long distance trucker.
You know, nobody is stopping POC from saying enough is enough to the crime, drugs, and broken families in their own communities.
Instead of trying to destroy white folks, too, they could fix themselves.
It won’t be easy, but it is possible and this is where black Christian churches and pastors need to step up and take charge. Christianity works no matter what the skin color.
“It is appropriate for white people who have had little to no prior antiracism or anti-oppression training” to have their noses rubbed in it.
It's in the black's power to fix that inequity and the answer is not to drag everyone else down to their level of brokenness, but to fix their problems and lift themselves out of it.
They need to stop worrying about *acting white* and get families functional again and provide for them with an education and real jobs and to value those things.
Stuff like that doesn't know any skin color. It just works.
maybe hire some POC first?
Ah, yes; hypocrisy, thy name is Cherry Republic.
That’s a black bear there, isn’t it?
So sad. We always liked Cherry Republic’s products and they have a great restaurant “up north” in Glenn Arbor.
Guess we won’t be buying anything from these woke idiots again.
WHAT IS IT that inspires companies (Penzy’s Spices is the worst example) to go full moonbat crazy and alienate half or so of their customer base? Is it the “cool kid” cocktail parties? Hob knobbing with the far left pols? Who knows? Just TIRED. OF. IT. Sell your products, and shut the he** up about politics already.
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