First Zoom meeting will be on Jan. 12
SENIOR PEACE CLUB
By Nancy Goldstein
LW contributor
The Senior Peace Club’s first meeting of the New Year will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 2 p.m. The Zoom linkand further details will be provided in the Jan. 7 issue of the LW Weekly. The topic of discussion for the next several months will be race; the unfinished business of our time.
The club will show a YouTube video titled “Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility.’” The video is 83 minutes long and will be divided into three sections over the next three club meetings which will allow ample time to react and discuss the content. The video is based on DiAngelo’s book titled “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism,” was published in 2018 and is said to “bring language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult.”
The book can be purchased if people are interested in reading it, but it isn’t required to participate in the club meeting. It is suggested that those interested in purchasing the book consider ordering it from an independent, Black-owned bookstore. Both Eso Wan in LA at (323) 290-1048 and Shades of Afrika Books in Long Beach at (562) 436-2210, as well as other local independent book sellers, will do mail order.
Another recommendation from the club is to independently watch the movie “13th,” a documentary by Ava DuVernay that is available on Netflix and YouTube. It illuminates how slavery and the criminal justice/penal system have impacted the lives of Black people.
For more information, call Don Koepke at (562) 330-3397.
1/25/17 10:06 AM
