I chose to examine Continuum on “Becoming an Anti-Racist
Multicultural Organization”. I was mostly struck by the very hard work involved
in becoming an anti-racist multicultural organization. Being fully-inclusive can
be rare, because of the need to re-structure your organization. I went to a
VERY white college, and they struggle to include people of color in their
organization because there simply aren’t many who live and work in small-town
Pennsylvania. Looking at the continuum looks helpful, in that you can be honest
with yourself when if comes to which column your organization rests, and you
can pretty clearly see specific ways in which you can improve and shift to the
right. I also thought that even though it might seem bad to “just make a policy”
or have token people of color on staff… it still is a place to start and grow
from. The shift from being exclusionary to anti-racist can sometimes be a long road, and it can feel impossible to make the leap… step by step is often the reality.
