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UUCFM Diversity OPEN Committee:
Understanding Cultural Competency – an interactive seminar on Race and Ethnic Relations
Mark your calendars: Jan 21, 2023, 9am-1pm in Hobart Hall.
You are cordially invited to participate in an interactive seminar on Race and Ethnic Relations facilitated by Dr. Barrion Staples, a local advocate for racial and ethnic justice and friend of the Congregation. Dr. Staples is offering this seminar in collaboration with the UUCFM OPEN (Our Purpose: Exclude Nobody) Diversity Committee.
This interactive seminar is experiential and is designed to promote positive race and ethnic relationships; not based on “blame and shame”. Race remains the unsolved dilemma in the United States, and the current polarization over the issue will persist as long there is a national taboo restricting honest discussion of group differences.
The mission for Race and Ethnic Relations seminars is to continue the principles of the Civil Rights Movement. This “Movement” must continue.
Dr. Staples is an active participant with Southwest Florida Voices for Racial Justice. Donations will be accepted at the event.
Sign-up by clicking this link
Contact: staples@raceandethics.com Phone: 941-237-0294
Dr. Staples Snapshot Bio
Dr. Barrion J. Staples is a product of The Civil Rights Movement and participated in activities that promoted the principles of the Movement. He was heavily influenced by the mentorship and friendship of the late Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian. However, his most significant influences were from his father, Rev. A. Q. Staples, and his cousins, the legendary Staple Singers. The patriarch of the Staple Singers, Roebuck “Pops” Staples, conveyed to him the importance of breaking down the walls which divide all people that is manifested by prejudice and racism. His father, along with Pops Staples, often shared their experiences about growing up in the segregated south with similar experiences in the north.
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