From the Holden Village Executive Directors
Chuck Hoffman + Peg Carlson-Hoffman
We (Chuck and Peg) are white and cis-gender. We claim our identity here and the limitation of perspective that accompanies it. We are committed to taking affirmative steps to listen, learn and act.
Now is the time to listen and learn to the lived experience of Black, Indigenous and People of Color. It is also time for Holden to examine its history of privilege. Holden Village is an Educational Retreat Center with ties to the whitest denomination in the U.S., serving an audience that has been predominantly white. It is our responsibility (Holden’s) to bear witness to what is happening in the world, to elevate the voices of Black and Brown people, to change the course of inequities, and to break down structural prejudice in all forms where it exists, within Holden and in white and Christian U.S. culture.
Below you will find more voices well worth contemplation and conversation.
Anti-Racism Resources
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
The Case for Reparations - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? By Ibram X. Kendi
America’s Racial Contract is Showing by Adam Serwer
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Policing.civilrights.org/toolkit
Teaching Tolerance: Teaching About Race, Racism and Police Violence
Seattle Public Libraries Race & Social Justice books for kids K-5
New York Times An Antiracist Reading List
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
100 Race Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child – Conversation Starters
NPR: How White Parents Can Talk About Race
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising
How to help Black Lives Matter: 9 things you can do for the George Floyd protesters right now
Redistribute Funds
More Minneapolis Organizations
Black Lives Matter Seattle–King County
Black Trans COVID-19 Community Response Grant
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
115 Ways to Donate in Support of Black Lives and Communities of Color