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Harvest Vol. 53, No 3 2020 Steven Taylor Sterling Higgins Priscilla Slater Daniel Prude Michael Brown Manuel Ellis Emantic Bredford Jr. Kamal Flowers Christopher Clark James Floyd Botham Jean Bradley Blackshire INJUSTICEJohnathan Price Jaleel Medlock Anthony McClain Michael Dean Rayshard Brooks Derrick Thompson Elija McClain ANYWHEREWilliam Green Devin Tillman Gregory Marcus-David Peters Dorian Harris Robert Forbes DionIS Johnson A THREATByron Williams TO Danny Ray Thomas Walter Wallace Sandra Bland James Scurlock JUSTICEJulian Lewis Darius Tarver Robert White Cornelius Fredericks Pamela Turner BreonnaEVERYWHERE. Taylor Stephon Clark Tony McDade Barry Gedeus Trayvon Martin -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Antwon Rose Jr. Atatiana Jefferson #BlackLivesMatter Barry Gedeus Ahmaud Arbery Ronell Foster Maurice Abisdid-Wagner Dijon Kizzee #SayTheirNames Aleah Jenkins Calvin Horton Jr. Alton Sterling Jemel Roberson Miciah Lee Lionel Morris Ronald Green Jason Washington George Floyd Damian Daniels Jaquyn O’Neill Light David Mcatee Charles Roundtree Jr. RacialJohn Neville InjusticeHarith Augustus Dominique Clayton Table of Contents NCLC-USA NATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL MEMBERS 3 Editorial Foreword: “Getting to Know You…”: EXCO MEMBERS Dorothy M. Zambito Barbara Rudolph, President E. Christina Kim, President-elect 5 In Memoriam Henry Gonzalez, Secretary Carmen Castagno, Treasurer 6 President’s Corner: Fall, a Season for Reflection: Barb Rudolph Kitty Gray, Asst. Treasurer 9 A Man Who Loved: Members of Holy Family CLC Open, Ecclesial Assistant Deidre Vivas and Frank Vuong, At Large 10 Beyond the Color of the Skin: Maria Alejandra Pulgar REPRESENTATIVES Followed by the Spanish Version Peggy Edwards, Missouri Christine Cichello, New England 16 An Ignatian Look at Privilege: Pat Carter Anderson Carmen Castagno, New Orleans 18 White Privilege: Do We Recognize It?: Marianne Cummins and Nancy Head, New York Beth Nolan Michael Dante, North Central Patrick Cleary-Burns, Rieman Great Lakes 21 Love God…Love Your Neighbor: Evelyn Brookhyser Ana Muler, South Florida Open, Western 22 Experiences with Racial Issues in the United States: Francis Ogutu Deb Flynn, Northwest 24 White Privilege and Systemic Racism: Tim Rouse Carol Gonzalez, Mid-Atlantic Anna Englert, Polish CLC Chicago 26 Book Reviews: Ladislas Orsy S.J., Discernment: DONG-HANH CLC (VIETNAMESE) Reviewed by Dominic Totaro, S.J. Liem Thanh Le, President John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me: Le-Hang Dinh, Northeast Reviewed by Dorothy M. Zambito Khanh (Ken) Vu, Midwestern Quang Pham, Southwest 27 My Friend Val: Nancy Head Huyen-Lan Nguyen, Canada 28 Growing in Racial Awareness, A Personal Journey: Lois Campbell KOREAN CLC Helen Seol, President 30 A New Community’s Reflection on Racism: Linda Catanzaro, Lucy Kim, Chicago Barb Rudolph and Vic Turk John Lim, Mid-Atlantic Helen Seol, Atlanta 33 Unconscious Motivation: Dominic Totaro, S.J. Jeong Anastasia Ho, New York 34 The UN and Human Rights: Mary Ann Cassidy Christine Teresa Park, Western WCLC 36 Africville, Nova Scotia, Canada - Canada’s Secret Racist History: Ann Marie Brennan, Vice President Gilles and Leah Michaud COORDINATING EDITOR 38 Remaining in God’s Word during the Pandemic: Locust Valley CLC Sung Joon (Macedonius) Moon LAYOUT & DESIGN Laura Thake Graphic Design Next Issue: Women Together – Moving Forward Vol. 53, No. 3 2020 Christian Life Community® Harvest (USPS 985-900: ISSN-0739-6422) is published three times a year by the National Christian Life National CLC-USA Office Community® of the United States of America, 3601 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108 3601 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108 Subscriptions are $15 (members) $24 per year USA; $28 foreign, $34 foreign air mail. Items can be faxed to: 314-633-4400. POSTMASTER: Send all changes of address to (Be sure to indicate that the fax is for NCLC.) Christian Life Community® Harvest, 3601 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. Visit our web site: www.clc-usa.org. Periodicals postage paid at St. Louis, Missouri Harvest / 2 Editorial Foreword “Getting to Know You…” Harvest Editorial The death of George Floyd and the awareness that Team: the Black Lives Matter movement have generated, caused Dorothy Zambito me to spend hours reflecting on racism in our country, George Willett but especially in my life as a senior white Catholic Nancy Head woman. The reflection has continued, along with a time of education on the subject. The presentation by Father Bryan Massingale, “The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it,” (June 2020) opened my eyes in ways I didn’t expect. I was compelled to share Father’s message The first time a black person was in my home was with the members of my family and among my friends. during the early years of my marriage in the 1960s. My Conversations were begun within my family circle. A husband and I were introduced to Joseph, a Black African new vocabulary came to life in me. I had been familiar from Uganda. Joseph was a student at Fordham and some with terms like segregation, discrimination and bias, for of us in CLC befriended and helped mentor him through example. I began to understand the differences among his undergraduate years. After medical school, Joseph ideas like racism, non-racism and anti-racism. I had read married an Ugandan woman and my husband served as about white supremacy, but not much about white privilege best man at their wedding. The friendship lasted many or complicity. Through the years, the media made me very years with our families sharing home and meals when in aware of segregation in schools and in neighborhoods the same cities. Other black people came to visit our home but less of racial injustices within our Church. I quickly through the years - dentists of color who were colleagues admitted that I had a lot to learn. of my husband, and friends of friends. Being born and living in New York City for the first I guess I would identify myself as a non-racist if twenty-five years of my life, one would suppose that I was someone inquired or observed me. To be completely always aware of people of color. Surrounded by millions honest, however, I had fears about the unknown and those of people, how could I not be? I grew up in a ‘segregated’ different from me. During the racial unrest of the 1960s neighborhood - all white. I never considered myself and 70s, I recall being afraid. I didn’t know where the privileged. I lived in a tenement with few amenities that demonstrations would lead. There were so many tensions are taken for granted today. There was no central heating. that arose after the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. and We shared toilet facilities with other families. Our living Malcolm X. What was happening in our country? What room doubled as a bedroom after dark. We lived a simple would come next? life. My greatest privilege was being surrounded by family. Racist or not? The real test for me came many years At some point, I did become aware of another segregated later when my younger daughter, Christine, announced to area in the city- Harlem - where black people lived. Early the family that she was engaged to a black man from the on, I believed that it was dangerous for white people to go Dominican Republic. As a mother of six married children, there. I scrutinized all the potential “sons and daughters-in- There were no children, teachers or even custodians marriage” when they arrived on my doorstep. This time it of color in the public school I attended. The same could was different. I was slower to embrace this situation. My be said of the local Catholic Church. Throughout my other children were helpful in moving me along to accept many years of education, I never had a Negro in any of this new challenge knowing how important it was to be my classes until graduate school. When I was a young united as family. The questions persisted, however. What teenager, George, an African American, appeared in our would people think? How would this interracial couple be group of friends for a brief period of time, perhaps during accepted where they settled down? Would my potential a summer. George was befriended by us and he seemed grandchildren be safe? Obviously these questions testified comfortable being with us. When everyone returned to our to the facts of the on going presence of racial injustice, several high schools in the fall, George was no longer in alive and well. These and a hundred other questions and the picture. He left almost as quietly as he had arrived. I thoughts crossed my mind. It is over nineteen years since guess we assumed he had moved away. we became an interracial family. Luis Morillo, my son- 2020 - Issue 3 / 3 in-marriage (preferred over son-in-law) and my daughter, There was a popular song that began, “Getting to Christine and grandsons, Brian, Jorge and Luis, Jr. as well know you, getting to know all about you…” Looking as Luis’ extended family and friends have been welcomed back on my personal experiences, one factor stands out into my home through two decades. They are loved dearly. so clearly. I/we can accept people who differ from us, Christine and Luis are good parents, work hard, practice whether by the color of their skin, their nationality or the faith and bring joy to all of us. Change for good is slow their religion, when we get to know them. We need to be at times, but it is possible. present to each other, to listen closely to each other and to be compassionate about our common needs. Knowing breeds respect, helps dispel fears and faulty assumptions and leads, hopefully, to our dreaming and acting together for a better tomorrow.