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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 69: Q&A or Q&Stay?

Sarah Freyd

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In this week’s episode, April and Tracie talk about how questions around racial justice often come from a place of “stuckness,” keeping us from making real progress on racial justice. They discuss ways in which you can work through your questions to get past this stuckness.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. April and Tracie focus this episode on the questions that arise in our racial justice journey, and how sometimes our questions get us “stuck.”  When are the times you have found your questions are where you get stuck? 

  2. When have you been the person at an educational program and asked a question around one of your “stumbling blocks” only to become more confused? What was the question? Are any of these questions attached to an old hurt? 

  3. April uses her experiences of questioning her own native identity as an example of what she calls “chronic confusion.” Where are areas that you have chronic confusion? Why might that be so? 

  4. Tracie reflects on her own history of using questions as a way to deal with her own cognitive dissonance around racial justice. When are the times this has been the case for you? What about the times your questions are reacting from a place of urgency? 

  5. What would it look like to share insights rather than questions, as April suggests? 

  6. April asks us to ask ourselves about how race has impacted our lives:  What are my values in this moment? How are my actions aligned to bring about racial justice? 

  7. April and Tracie use conversations around Jewish continuity to demonstrate how questions can lead us to get stuck and how to work through chronic confusion? How does this help you better understand how this shows up in conversations on racial justice? 

  8. Tracie points out that sometimes our questions are actually fears and worries. What are the questions regarding racial justice that you have which are actually based in fear? 

  9. Use the “5 Whys” method on one of your questions. What came up?

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