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Fall is overflowing with opportunities to meet and learn from Ethical Society members of all ages. Read about our Fall events and current discussions in this issue.

Articles Include:

Outreach It Is!
Join us for “Barn-Raising a Movement: How We Can Help Each Other
YES Examines Race in Modern America
Get Ready for Lay Leadership Summer School
Racial Justice Work in Our Ethical Societies
Are You a Racist?
Dangers to Liberty of Expression

Send submissions for Winter 2016 to communications@aeu.org by Friday, December 25.

American Ethical Union

"As a white, taxpaying, home owner, I believe it’s his duty to protect me and my interests rather than the other way around. I also believe that my friend, who is a Black, taxpaying, homeowner ought to be perceived as a boss of the police chief in her town – but she didn’t see it that way and was surprised that I saw myself in the position of power vis a vis the chief." ... See MoreSee Less

American Ethical Union » Week of 7/6/2020

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Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a group, an individual or an object into the role of the ‘other’ and establishing one’s own identity through opposition to and, frequently, vili...

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"I felt that my dignity was taken away," Gilliam says of his arrest and the subsequent hours he spent sitting in the police station. "I felt like less of a human. I felt inferior to the white officers who were there." ... See MoreSee Less

The duty and burden of the black police officer

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David J. Thomas grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, two blocks from the headquarters of the 10th Precinct. Nighttime echoed with .50-caliber machine guns. Mornings dawned over neighborhood rubble. Thomas remembers being 11 years old, approaching a squad car outside the corner store and asking a police....

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America doesn't just have a police problem: It has a morality problem

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I fear that until the persistence of racism and hatred in the American fabric is radically mitigated, police killings will inevitably continue.

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What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker

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WARNING: The following video contains scenes of a disturbing nature, including police brutality, racist and profane language, and extreme violence against pe...

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