“So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” —James 2:17”
The Plymouth Church in Framingham believes that Black Lives Matter. We embrace the amazing diversity of God’s creation and believe everyone is created in God’s image. We acknowledge our commitment to eliminate racism in our personal, interpersonal, institutional and cultural realms by engaging with all communities, and particularly with communities of color, to promote peace, liberty and justice for all.
Watch our worship service from Sunday, June 7, 2020, the first in a series of three services devoted to understanding our role as Christians in the work of racial justice.
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A Short List of Resources
Hundreds of articles, books, podcasts, and video clips are available on the internet. This short list contains race-related resources from several of America’s most respected anti-racist individuals and organizations who have helped move the conversation forward at Plymouth Church.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race (Video Clip - 4:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBb5TgOXgNY
Moving The Race Conversation Forward - Systemic Racism ( Video-Clip 4:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjGQaz1u3V4
Tatum, Beverly, Why are all the Black Kinds Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Article) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/06/beverly-daniel-tatum-discusses-new-version-why-are-all-black-kids-sitting-together
James Baldwin, Embracing the Stranger (Video Clip - 2:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LmrqtD1E7c
Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task (Video Clip - 2:43)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S7zGgL6Suw
Tim Wise on how African Americans are portrayed in the media ( Video Clip - 2:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5MUu_NkSWo
What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin Di Angelo (Article)
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2019/whats-my-complicity-talking-white-fragility-with-robin-diangelo
Robin Di Angelo, Debunking the Most Common Myths White People Tell About Race (Video Clip - 3:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHg65JORi8
‘White Fragility’ author doesn’t think ‘most white people care about racial injustice’
(June 2, 2020 Podcast – 37:22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/cape-up/the-author-of-white-fragility-doesnt-think-most-white-people-care-about-racial-injustice/
Facebook Post from President Barack Obama: June 1, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10157802011441749?__tn__=K-R
158 Resources to Understand Racism in America
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/158-resources-understanding-systemic-racism-america-180975029/
Our Library
We are building a library of books for members to check out.
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To Honor George Floyd, June 3, 2020,” courtesy of Framingham Source.