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Racism Tools to Identify and Tools to Work to Undo Racism Goal is Justice not Guilt Brothers and Sisters to Us U.S. Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on Racism Distinguish BetweenPersonal Prejudice and Personal ActsversusSystemic and InstitutionalPreferences for Whites If the KKK keeps people out of school, we understand that as racism But if Fewer People of Color Can Afford to Attend Private Schools, College and Graduate Schools Is that Racism? Racism is “systematized oppression of one race of another.? In other words, the various forms of oppression within every sphere of social relations—economic exploitation, military subjugation, political subordination, cultural devaluation, psychological violation, sexual degradation, verbal abuse, etc.—together make up a whole of interacting and developing processes which operate so normally and naturally and are so much a part of the existing institutions of society that the individuals involved are barely conscious of their operation” James Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle 147-148. RacismisPrejudice Plus Power Not Just White and Black Racial JusticeEconomic JusticeGender JusticeAre Intertwined Racism is a sin Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of that family, and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same Father. Isn’t Racism Over? Because the Courts have eliminated statutory racial discrimination and Congress has enacted civil rights legislation, and because some minority people have achieved some measure of success, many people believe that racism is no longer a problem in American life. Distinguish BetweenPersonal Prejudice and Personal ActsversusSystemic and InstitutionalPreferences for Whites Movement toward authentic justice demands a simultaneous attack on both racism and economic oppression. The continuing existence of racism becomes apparent when we look beneath