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    Enter the River Study Guide

      Session 4: Exploring prejudice
      Handout for Session 4: Self-examination - Reflecting on Attitudes and Behaviors


      (Exercise adapted from Working For Life: Dismantling Racism, Dody S. Matthias, Fairway Press, 1990.)

      Read each statement. Place and "X" on the line in front of each statement that indicates an attitude or a behavior you held in the past. Place an "O" on the line in front of each statement that represents your current attitude and behavior.

      ____ 1. Treating people of color differently from European-American/White people.
      ____ 2. Feeling more fortunate, superior to, and/or better than people of color.
      ____ 3. Becoming aware of discrimination against people of color.
      ____ 4. Feeling guilty about racism.
      ____ 5. Desiring and trying to prove to people of color, "I'm not racist."
      ____ 6. Becoming willing to look at and/or address racism provided that people of color say that they are racist, too.
      ____ 7. Being angry toward other White people for their racism.
      ____ 8. Attempting to gain the "approval" of a person of color for decisions I have made in my personal life.
      ____ 9. Talking a lot "about" racism, but not actually doing anything about it.
      ____ 10. Feeling helpless as an individual to doing anything truly useful in dismantling racism.
      ____ 11. Deciding actively to resist those social and/or political and/or economic forces that seek to cause and perpetuate oppression of people of color.
      ____ 12. Becoming aware that racism is directly related to my relationship with God.


      Session 4: Exploring prejudice



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