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Racial Violence and White Supremacy Wicked Problem Analysis By: Kate, Jannessa, Isaiah, Melia, Michelle & Travis

Introduction and Artistic Expression

INTRODUCE THE PROBLEM Racial Violence: “ Harassment of or violence towards someone who is perceived by the assailant to be racially or ethnically different and where evidence would indicate that someone of a different ethnicity, in the same place and similar circumstances would not have been attacked in the same way.” (Institute of Race Relations) This has been a distinct part of America’s history since 1660, and especially horrific for African Americans. From revolts, uprising, lynching, police shootings, and many more violent acts across many different African American communities (universities, urban, rural, etc.). It is a continuous struggle African Americans must fight against in order to obtain respect and equality, their fight still continues today... White Supremacy: White supremacy is the racist/ systematic belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races and utilize manipulative tactics and deathly measures to ensure that white people remain supreme systematically, socially, economically, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnI9c4_xu8w Stop around 3min

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION 1 ● This album as a whole was created by 30+ black artists in 2018 ● The album touches on issues of intergenerational trauma, realities of America’s current racialized divide & healing from those two ● Some songs in particular recall, “both the grief of unjustly losing loved ones as well as the circumstances that continue to perpetuate violence that is causing these losses across the U.S.” https://www.blacknews.com/news/resmaa-menakem- album-dismembered-unarmed-pain-rebirth-america/

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION 1 https://youtu.be/NbabzemhDGE https://youtu.be/O6Galp7x8gQ Start at 28s https://www.blacknews.com/news/resmaa-menakem-album-dis membered-unarmed-pain-rebirth-america/

Group Activity

GROUP ACTIVITY: Kahoot Do you know important figures who have fought for equality? Let’s see! https://create.kahoot.it/share/powerful-people/7da974cd-53e4-48da-bce6-07d74fef e5b2

GROUP DISCUSSION ● After learning about these amazing people and their work towards equality, how would you define Black Power? Why are we only taught about a limited amount of important people during this ● time? ○ Is this a form of racial discrimination? Only being taught in schools or by the media about specific people? ● Two modern examples of white supremist events in are the Charlottesville Riots and the Baltimore protests. ○ What is the significance of these events?

Documentary Analysis “The Black Power Mixtape” power; message; speech; voice justice…..

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/looking-back-at-the-black- power-movement/ https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/a-civil-rights-firebrand-still -inspires-fascination-and-fear/

power, voice, injustice, silence, knowlege LEADERS Words from Stokely Carmichael; “When you talk about black power you talk about bringing this country to its knees any time it messes with the black man … any white man in this country knows about power.” Words from Martin Luther King; "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude." "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Leadership Responses

MLK Jr. - “I Have a Dream” and Nonviolence “We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.” Margaret Wheatley’s “Nobility of Leadership” ● “Even as destructive dynamics tear us apart and take over our culture, we still have life’s creative and order-seeking dynamics available to us.” ● Fear vs. Love in leaders 7:00 - 8:48 - 1963

Stokely Carmichael - “Black Power” and Violence “The question is, will white people overcome their racism and allow for that to happen in this country? If that does not happen, brothers and sisters, we have no choice but to say very clearly, “Move over, or we goin’ to move on over you.” Lichtenstein’s “Complexity Leadership Theory” “Leadership is an emergent event, an ● outcome of relational interactions among agents.” ● Leaders must be adaptive to constant change Tension is a driver of adaptive leadership 47:35 - 48:06 - 1966 ●

Peniel E. Joseph - “Black Power’s Quiet Side” JONES - Model of Multiple Yes, MLK Jr. and Carmichael had sharp Dimensions of Identity disagreements about nonviolence and violence in regards to the Black Rights Movement... ● Identities co-exist and can shift BUT over time ... they also had areas of collaboration and ○ Caused by contextual influences agreement. ● But an identity salience keeps the true vision/mission the ● Anti-war ● Anti-Poverty focus ● Black Identity

Violence vs. Nonviolence Which do you think was more effective at the time? Which do you think is more effective now?

Failure of Leadership to Address the Wicked Problem “Well, I do think there's blame, yes, I think there's blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it.” McIntosh’s “Unpacking White Privilege” “Whiteness protected me from many kinds of ● hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being 17:48 - 18:40 subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.” ● Privilege is typically used as a tool of oppression How can it instead be used as a tool for good? ●

Failure of Leadership to Address the Wicked Problem Chancellor DiStefano addressing the racist incident on campus in October, 2019: ● 3 minutes of a 50 minute speech ● Proceeded to discuss funding, awards, and how CU is making “excellence inclusive” ● Students walked out Clark’s “Organizational Saga” ● CU has a false organization saga of diversity, inclusivity, and equity ● It promotes this saga to attract underrepresented students but fails to support them when they arrive

Put Yourself in Their Shoes What would you have done differently to address these problems? What makes responding to crises so difficult?

Successful Leaders in Addressing the Wicked Problem e BSA student protests and demands for administration Meadows’ “Dancing With Systems” ● Locate responsibility in the system ● Implement systems of feedback ● Expand time horizons, thought horizons, and the boundary of caring ● Celebrate complexity ● Hold fast to the goal of goodness

From the Student’s Perspective Do you think that student organizations hold the necessary power to make long-lasting change? Are you a part of a student organization working to make change? How is this group going about it?

Concluding Artistic Expression

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