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TRUE DEMOCRACY?Racial Equity Opportunities for Government and Our Communities
Convening on Racial EquityGlenn Harris, President
August 6th, 2014Twin Cities, MN
Do you work for…
A. CommunityB. Local GovernmentC. Regional GovernmentD. PhilanthropyE. AcademiaF. Business
I believe we can end racial inequity.A. Strongly AgreeB. Somewhat AgreeC. NeutralD. Somewhat DisagreeE. Strongly Disagree
Racial inequity in the U.S.
1) Think of a number between 1 and 10
2) Multiply that number times 93) If it is a two digit number add
them together (for example 32 would be 3+2=5)
4) Subtract 55) Convert to a letter (a is 1, b is 2,
etc.)6) Country starts with that letter.7) Animal that starts with that
letter.8) Fruit that starts with that letter.
Family
Tuskegee
The Center for Social InclusionCSI is a national policy strategy organization working to transform structural barriers to opportunity for communities of color, and ensure that we all share in the benefits and burdens of public policy.
Ideas
Leadership
Communications
StructurallyTransformative
Policies
Leadership Communications
1. It’s not about the individual
Frames Filters to make sense of the world. A collection of anecdotes and stereotypes, that
individuals use to respond to events. They largely reside in the sub-conscious. They exist in and are shaped by our
environment.
Source: Unconscious (Implicit) Bias and Health Disparities: Where Do We Go from Here?
Explicit bias
Expressed directly
Aware of bias
Operates consciously
Example -- “I like whites more than Latinos.”
Implicit bias
Expressed indirectly
Unaware of bias
Operates sub-consciously
Example -- sitting further away from a Latino than a
white individual.
• When conductors were placed behind a screen, the percentage of female new hires for orchestral jobs increased 25% – 46%.
Examples of implicit bias
What is Bias?
• Suppressing or denying prejudiced thoughts can actually increase prejudice rather than eradicate it.
• Research has confirmed that instead of repressing one’s prejudices, if one openly acknowledges one’s biases, and directly challenges or refutes them, one can overcome them.
Institutional/Explicit
Policies which explicitly discriminate against a group.
Example: Police department refusing to hire people of color.
Institutional/Implicit
Policies that negatively impact one group unintentionally.
Example:Police department focus on street level drug arrests.
Individual/Explicit
Prejudice in action – discrimination.
Example:Police officer calling someone an ethnic slur while arresting them.
Individual/Implicit
Unconscious attitudes and beliefs.Example:Police officer calling for back-up more often when stopping a person of color.
structural
institution
individual
Individual racism:Pre-judgment, bias, or discrimination by
an individual based on race.
Institutional racism:Policies, practices and procedures that
work better for white people than for people of color, often unintentionally.
Structural racism:A history and current reality of institutional
racism across all institutions. This combines to create a system that negatively impacts communities of color.
(Race and Social Justice Initiative)
Structural Inclusion
Deep education Equitable policies Operationalizing equity in our institutions
Structural Inclusion
2. Talking about race right
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
LIMITED GOVERNMENT
The Meta-Frames and Race
How race gets triggered cognitively
Implicit Bias:
Unconscious bias
developed through
networks of association
on race
Symbolic Racism: The use of images, code words, and metaphors that implicitly signal race
Using symbols
to trigger
unconscious racism
Our Fiscal Policy Debate: 2012
“I don’t want to make black [sic] people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
Rick Santorum, 2012 Iowa Campaign
Messages on healthcare and the race wedge
1. Chose policy debates where race has played a big role Healthcare reform Finance reform
2. Developed 1 minute storyboards/commercials Emotional, visual, and ready to deploy
3. Pitted the following against conservative message: Race-explicit messages Race-implicit messages Race-neutral messages
4. Gave the test online to 900 registered voters using a dial-test
Goal: To craft effective and usable messages that blunt the race wedge
Which message framing was most successful?
A. Explicit race equityB. Implicit race equityC. Race neutralD. Conservative
Message ResultsAfter each message, we asked respondents:On a scale of 0 to 100, how much do you agree or disagree with the message you just saw? Please give a rating from 0 to 100, where 100 means you totally agree, and 0 means you totally disagree.
A progressive explicit race message wins by 22 points in the South
Conservative
No race
Implicit race
Explicit race
63.9
68.1
70.2
76.2
Average agree/disagree rating (0-100)
Changing minds
Most importantly, the best way to change attitudes is to change behavior.
Attitudinal change tends to follow behavior change.
Requires both short and long-term approaches.
RSJI Employee Survey 2012
“Examine impact of race at work”
“Actively promoting RSJI changes”
“Dept and City making progress”
3. Government is ours
“Racial equity government priority”
“Progress on racial equity”
“Schools are good or very good”
RSJI Community Survey 2012
Government is the single largest employer of communities of color.
15% of Latinos are employed by government. Public agencies are the single largest employer
for Black men, and the second most common for Black women.
Government and race
Local governments shed nearly 1 million employees since employment in the sector hit its peak in September 2008.
Largest contraction of public sector jobs since 1945.
Government and race
Individual
informal grou
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form
al group
nonprofit
union
governmen
tTend toward – Tend toward – Informal FormalLocal interest Broad InterestsVoluntary ProfessionalIssue/identity Focused Geographic FocusCollective Decision Making Hierarchical
Modes of community participation
Outside-Inside Strategies
What is Power?
What is Politics?
politicalconcept
politicalaction
Van Jones’s “Heart Space/Head Space Grid” from Rebuild the Dream (2012)
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
HEADSPACE
Head space
Where Rational + Conceptual meet Think tanks, academics and policy wonks Facts and rational arguments One cannot make meaningful, effective, and
lasting change without a sober view of the data combined with sound policy prescriptions
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
HEADSPACE
HEARTSPACE
Heart Space
Here emotions have sway Great storytellers, artists, preachers, and other
resonant communicators Energizing emotions shared: feelings of love and
rage, contempt and compassion, pride and shame
Needed for inspiration and motivation
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
HEADSPACE
HEARTSPACE
OUTSIDEGAME
Outside game
Where emotion and action meet Activists, organizers and volunteers Action not based on their immediate, rational self
interest, but on what feels right- what moves their heart
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
HEADSPACE
HEARTSPACE
OUTSIDEGAME
INSIDEGAME
Inside game
Where reason meets action Elected officials, paid lobbyists, party operatives,
staff members at legislative and bureaucratic levels
People who have enough power, standing, access or influence to impact the behavior of the decision makers
Natural home of the deal maker- cold blooded maneuver and necessary compromise
Which do you find more comfortable?
A. Head SpaceB. Heart Space
Rational
Political concept
Politicalaction
Emotional
HEADSPACE
HEARTSPACE
OUTSIDEGAME
INSIDEGAME
Head and heart
All four quadrants are important depending on the stage of making change.
The key is a dynamic balance.
Aligning strategies
Outside Alignment Inside AlignmentOrganizing community Organizing staff and leadership
Build inside capacity- having a strategy to support inside change agents
Build community capacity by leveraging resources and sharing inside information
Mobilizing community to share their case
Creating avenues for dialogue between outside and inside voices
Power + Love
I believe we can achieve racial equity.A. Strongly AgreeB. Somewhat AgreeC. NeutralD. Somewhat DisagreeE. Strongly Disagree
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