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Must stop fetishizing the pain of people of color as some outside temporary crisis that just needs white saviors to show the right path to peace. Do the work to dismantle the systems that continually perpetuate gain born out  greed and self interest to the detriment of POC globally and to Mother Earth.

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Must stop fetishizing the pain of people of color as some outside temporary crisis that just needs white saviors to show the right path to peace. Do the work to dismantle the systems that continually perpetuate gain born out  greed and self interest to the detriment of POC globally and to Mother Earth.

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Part of Quaker faith is experiential and experimental because the faith moves as the need of the community changes. If systems of oppression are not dismantled by our own faith community then our community is not being faithful to be rooted in truth and justice.

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Part of Quaker faith is experiential and experimental because the faith moves as the need of the community changes. If systems of oppression are not dismantled by our own faith community then our community is not being faithful to be rooted in truth and justice.

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Shaming ministry is not faithful. There are white Friends that use their “ministry” to veil their correcting of or “checking” Friends, especially diverse Friends, by calling all to be more faithful to the way things are, when it is that type of “putting someone in their place” ministry that feels unfaithful. 

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Shaming ministry is not faithful. There are white Friends that use their “ministry” to veil their correcting of or “checking” Friends, especially diverse Friends, by calling all to be more faithful to the way things are, when it is that type of “putting someone in their place” ministry that feels unfaithful. 

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If White Friends want to de-center whiteness, why do they claim to be white and not say their European roots. Their history was not erased from them. They built whiteness, they should deconstruct it.

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If White Friends want to de-center whiteness, why do they claim to be white and not say their European roots. Their history was not erased from them. They built whiteness, they should deconstruct it.

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Tired of what feels like the fetishizing of the ministry of Black Friends that have passed away, but our current living Black Friends ministry is not lifted, especially when they have ministry that speaks to our current condition. Friends like Hal Weaver and his justice ministry.

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Tired of what feels like the fetishizing of the ministry of Black Friends that have passed away, but our current living Black Friends ministry is not lifted, especially when they have ministry that speaks to our current condition. Friends like Hal Weaver and his justice ministry.

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(more on Ileana's comment about White Friends not exerting control at the end of Whiteboard thoughts part 2) This was in response to the move to invite the wider Friends community to join what we plan to create for FOC. A caution that this is a sensitive issue because White Friends tend to move into our spaces and end up exerting control because they have money (and time). My interpretation of these words is that our space must clearly be led by POC and they must reflect our shared values

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(more on Ileana's comment about White Friends not exerting control at the end of Whiteboard thoughts part 2) This was in response to the move to invite the wider Friends community to join what we plan to create for FOC. A caution that this is a sensitive issue because White Friends tend to move into our spaces and end up exerting control because they have money (and time). My interpretation of these words is that our space must clearly be led by POC and they must reflect our shared values

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Sometimes it feel lonely being a Quaker of color. When I am with  Friends of color, there is a feeling of support, closeness, and love. 

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Sometimes it feel lonely being a Quaker of color. When I am with  Friends of color, there is a feeling of support, closeness, and love. 

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The sharing was powerful. I feel very grateful for being a part of this workshop and for being with other FoC.

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The sharing was powerful. I feel very grateful for being a part of this workshop and for being with other FoC.

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How can we push an ATTRACTIVE space that is led by PoC?

We out.

Not in favor of excluding white friends. Just starting our own and let them join us.

create/write our own Advices & Queries this year 2021 for publishing next year 2022, including hard questions like, How far decolonization? When do we start discussions &

negotiations of reparations for both native & african americans?

Friends of Color creates advices and queries for ourselves to use, but also distribute

Let's plan on our own "conference" - maybe in February. And encourge, push, urge, nudge, cajole them into attending to show why FoC meetings are so attractive

Let's create our own advices and queries  as part of a new branch of RSF (no interest in reforming what exists)

Let's not reintroduce colonialism of our own!

per Naveed, create our own FoC annual conference (feb'22)

We need white people to not insert power and control in our spaces whether it is because of money or another reason

We're dying on the streets but our faith is growing. They're living on the streets but they're faith is dying - Ileana Clarke

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More color-centric.does not mean less about anyone - Naveed

A new branch of the RSF - predominantly POC

Language

There is bible study why isn't there aspects of the beauty in alI forms of faith, spirituality and practice - Quran study, Torah study, studying Kant etc

First, Friends of Color should claim our rightful place- we are the Global Majority

Create POC/FOC space outside of FGC (?) so FOC don't need to keep responding to the greater FGC community

Stop fetishizing OLD WHITE Quakerism!

The new seeds of our movement

identify friends of similar color/race/ethnicity

& promoting their get-togethers as groups/ meetings

FOC can lead the greater Quaker community in reclaiming our place in history making Justice the testimony of all Quakers in the way Peace has historically been our testimony

Getting rid of images depicting the "peaceful"  transfer of land between William Penn and the Lenni Lenape people

Let People of Color create and lead and let everyone else follow.

asking FoC groups to create space/times with their own story/language/tradition focus

lndigenized Friends look like it needs to look when

you don't need to code switch. I should be able to take my experience anywhere and not have to change my language to feel more Quakerish

What language is being used the promotes colonialism?

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we are being left behind and minimized in the faith and practice and advices and queries

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affinity groups doing what they like and how they like it...why doesn't Quakerism look for the "good" in all other faiths, practices, religions and spirituality.

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Consider outside of your perspective. Don't give me special treatment. Think about the structure and/or space in a fuller sense. I don't need special treatment. How do you go from making me feel invisible to being treated as special

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The experience of being unseen and unheard in the wider Society of Friends is what hurts me. The experience of being heard, loved and held sometimes when I do speak up is what keeps me engaged. 

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The experience of being unseen and unheard in the wider Society of Friends is what hurts me. The experience of being heard, loved and held sometimes when I do speak up is what keeps me engaged. 

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The power of healing movement done in community is a great gift.  Thank you for the offering, and for everyone who shared in the experience!

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The power of healing movement done in community is a great gift.  Thank you for the offering, and for everyone who shared in the experience!

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Deep sharing of ourselves can only happen when we feel safe in the sharing space. I feel safe to share deeply with Friends of Color - I can't express in words what a great gift that is for me from this community. 

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Deep sharing of ourselves can only happen when we feel safe in the sharing space. I feel safe to share deeply with Friends of Color - I can't express in words what a great gift that is for me from this community. 

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Gratitude for all the work done by folks at the Black Quaker Project, especially for creating such an inclusive, big tent - including not just all non-White peoples, but also Quakers of all formats of worship - programmed as well as non-programmed Friends, around the whole globe.

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Gratitude for all the work done by folks at the Black Quaker Project, especially for creating such an inclusive, big tent - including not just all non-White peoples, but also Quakers of all formats of worship - programmed as well as non-programmed Friends, around the whole globe.

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More growth...more sharing...more learning. Thank you friends for the love.

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Loved the body work... Thank you for the offering. 

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Loved the body work... Thank you for the offering. 

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Enjoyed meeting the various Friends of Color and learning from each person's journey...

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Black Quaker Project provided a framework for transforming the Religious Society of Friends grounding its work in Justice.  I learned a lot from the presentation and will share information with my monthly and yearly meetings to support racial justice.

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A call to white Friends to stop hiding behind S.P.I.C.E.S. and embrace Justice as well. ~Crystal

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I need to appreciate my body more!
~Crystal

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Commitment to healing movement does not need to be a daunting one. I am taking with me the simple elegance of swaying like seaweed in the ocean. 

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Commitment to healing movement does not need to be a daunting one. I am taking with me the simple elegance of swaying like seaweed in the ocean. 

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~Crystal

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I don't feel I'm under a magnifying glass

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feeling of being an outside has diminished since I found other FoC

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how do I make this real in my life?

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of the mystical experience -

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Of how we can nurture and grow our space

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Fending off being minimized or corrected. Speaking something authentically and having no response from the white group

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let healing flow over you

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it feels good to move like the ocean

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power hoarding cowardice

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This is what keeps me going in the Quaker world

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Some of us feel tenuous about our connection with Friends

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Some of us feel tenuous about our connection with Friends

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Are we being fed? Are we being nourished? If not, how much longer can we expect to be part of communities which don't raise us up?

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Why do we feel there is only lip-service paid to our concerns? How do we move the needle on a state of hypocrisy?

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I come from a non-traditional background and it has made my experience of being a convinced Quaker so much risher

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We need to get those actions out there. How do we engage white firends?

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A deep sharing that reflects the different lenses we bring as Friends of Color - Naveed

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Just, wow! So much learning, so little time - Naveed