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February 27th - Religious School

with Reverend Rodney Williams

Last Thursday night we welcomed Reverend Rodney Williams to class as part of our discussion about Black History Month.

Reverend Rodney did a waste basket exercise, led the kids on a privilege walk and led a discussion on how bias, privilege and anti-semitism are all interconnected, how our systemic and individual prejudices shape our experiences while acknowledging and address these complexities.

We asked the students to share their learnings about tonight...

During this Thursday class, I learned about how biases and privilege can influence our daily lives based on our race, gender and religion.

The first point we discussed was privilege based on gender and race. Most people tend to have preconceived notions called biases that whether we believe it consciously or subconsciously impact our daily lives. The most common forms that we encounter are based on general rules and stereotypes, and these are things such as men not being nurses or women not being firefighters or police officers This led into our discussion of privilege and how people will have advantages based on race and economic opportunities

Jack Levison

In class today, we learned all about all the different parts that play into privilege and opportunity. We discussed how gender and race can hurt or help your opportunity in life. We used examples such as sitting and throwing paper into a basket and the different distances represented the different privileges in the world. It was a lesson everyone has talked about before, but we have never fully addressed it and I think that was very helpful.

Andrew Orr

Today in class, I learned about bias, antisemitism and privilege. We did an activity with us throwing a paper ball into a trashcan. However, me and Carly had less privilege because we were behind others. This taught me about opportunity. We also did a privilege walk where we learned about gender equality, and how men have more privilege. In how this translates to antisemitism, we learned about how we should spread awareness about antisemitism.

Alicia Hubbard

Today we learned about bias and privilege.

We talked about how some people have more privilege than others and how if a person has privilege then another person has less privilege. We also talked about how anti-semitism and bias are related. People think there are three groups: being a racist, not being a racist, and fighting against racism. However there are really only two groups: being a racist and not being a racist. If you consider yourself not a racist then you should also be fighting against racism.

Carly MacIsaac

Today in Hebrew school, we learned about privilege and whiteness. For example, the difference in women and men is nonexistent.

Yet in social norms, they are completely different. To illustrate this on a slideshow we shared comparisons and differences in privilege and how Judaism and other minorities are struggling across the world.

Levi Hodkinson

Today in Hebrew school, Reverend Rod came to talk to us. He talked about bias, antisemitism, general roles and privilege. We did an activity where we shot paper balls into the trashcan. In our case the girls were in the back, making the shot more difficult for them. They had to work harder to get the same opportunity - similar to the real world. Reverend Rod put in our minds there are categories - racist, not racist, and fighting against racism. He stated that the last two should be combined into one category since a non-racist should fight against racism. For our last activity we did a “privilege walk” where we took steps based on certain requirements. For example, the girls had to take a step back for being female, and we all took a step back for facing antisemitism.

Jake Korfin

Today we learned in class about privilege and bias. When we have biases about a group, society makes stereotypes about them. This develops into racism and antisemitism and hate . Privilege also leads to some people being perceived as better than others.  We need to bring awareness to these problems, and hopefully we can fix them in the future.

Jacob Weiss

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