Hope Story Circle with Dee Shanti - December 19th, 2020

Dee Shanti, the new Managing Director of the Peace Alliance joined us to share her very personal journey of understanding racism. As a descendant of prominent Confederate leaders, her understanding grew more specific and current with the 2015 massacre at Mother Emanuel Church in her town of Charleston, SC. She shared her reckoning of the truth of what black people in this country have lived in, every day, and how she has taken on the awakening for racial inequity as a white person. There isn’t an end, no certificate of completion - it’s a journey. She shared a poem written after the murder of George Floyd earlier this year. The inquiry was for people to remember moment that caused a shift in understanding about race in the United States, and what that meant. Check the calendar of Events at www.peacealliance.org - join us at our next Hope Story Circle and share your emerging stories!