Diversity, Inclusion
and Belonging
Ministry
The Diversity, Inclusion ad Belonging Ministry acknowledges and addresses racist and discriminatory approaches within out communitty and develops strategies that support and enhance a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Largely in response to The Waking up White Program Partnership between the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert (UUCOD) and the Insight Community Desert, and the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Widening the Circle of Concern report, the UUCOD Board of Directors established the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Ministry (DIBM). The membership of this ministry was formed and DIBM began its work in November 2020. Since that time several changes have been implemented and there has been impressive participation by several congregants in the Meadville Lombard Theological School’s Beloved Conversations Program.
The DIBM meetings have been both important and meaningful. They have also begun the process of our congregation working toward being more multicultural and anti-racist while truly living into the recently adopted Eighth Principle.
Letters from the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Ministry
Series of Excellent Programs Now Available on PBS
The Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Ministry (DIBM) wishes to bring to our UUCOD community’s attention a series of excellent programs now available on PBS. They address in deep and powerful ways the experiences, both horrific and hopeful, of Jewish, Hispanic and Black people at different points in our history. DIBM strongly encourages you to explore these enlightening, challenging, at times disturbing but ultimately essential viewing opportunities.
Juneteenth
While Juneteenth has now been made a federal holiday, and should be celebrated by all, it is important to understand what the enslaved African-Americans of Galveston, Texas were told on that day.
On June 19, 1865, Union troops under the command of General Gordon Granger entered Galveston. The general proclaimed to the people assembled his General Order #3. Its first provision told those who had been enslaved that the Civil War was now over and that pursuant to the Emancipation Proclamation, they and others enslaved in the states in rebellion (the Confederacy) were no longer enslaved but were free.
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