Divided Community Project - TRC Commission World Cafe by Steve David https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9 The purpose of this café is to surface and affirm what participants experienced during their commission work. Lessons learned and new insights harvested from these conversations will look backward and forward to inform the work and outcomes of future TRCs. en-us 2023-01-20 13:52:55 UTC 2023-12-18 16:34:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Cafe Etiquette scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451078509 2023-01-20 13:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451078509 Use this space! scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451079828 We will be using this Padlet as a notetaking space for this conversation. You are welcome to add your own posts by clicking the + sign at the bottom corner. We invite you to add comments and reactions to other posts as well!]]> 2023-01-20 13:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451079828 Q2: What could have happened anywhere? What would have only been in your city? Why? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451081402 2023-01-20 13:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2451081402 Check In: : Who are you and why is this conversation important to you? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603224956 Jeremie English Reparations Commissioner.

This important to me because my culture represents a history reflects. why I am who I am and how I can better my culture's society. ]]> 2023-05-24 12:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603224956 Q1: What about your experience would you like everyone to know? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603225576 2023-05-24 12:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603225576 Table One scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603228378 2023-05-24 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603228378 Q3: What is the best of your work? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603229681 2023-05-24 12:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603229681 Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy: OSU Divided Community Project scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603233095 Strengthening democracy requires a multi-pronged approach. The focus of this guide is on one prong – “speaking out” – as a strategy for strengthening democracy.]]> 2023-05-24 12:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603233095 Check Out: How are you different from this experience? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603233734 2023-05-24 12:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603233734 Table Two scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603243540 2023-05-24 12:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603243540 Table Three scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603254247 2023-05-24 12:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2603254247 Table Four scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2663923518 2023-08-17 00:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2663923518 Why I'm here https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665031633 I am Marshall Stevenson from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and a member of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seeking ways to learn and implement reconciliation for the approximately 44 terror lynchings that took place in the state.]]> 2023-08-17 18:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665031633 Why is this important to me https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665032668 This is important to me cause it has to do with repairing the harm that was  and continues to be done to my people. Socially politically and economically

]]> 2023-08-17 18:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665032668 Need for sense of community scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665059363 Make up for gaps in shared history in Black experience and find commonality]]> 2023-08-17 18:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665059363 Community outreach scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665059873 Ensure people (esp. elders) feel they have a say and they can be reached]]> 2023-08-17 18:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665059873 Education system scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665060636 Disparities in educational system. How can we make inroads to do reparative work in that system. 

Significant education gap and racial wealth gaps. Control of budget and education funding. ]]> 2023-08-17 18:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665060636 Who we are and why we're doing the work scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665062513 Individual barriers 
Need for allies

]]> 2023-08-17 18:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665062513 Communication scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665062752 Need to communicate with each other ]]> 2023-08-17 18:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665062752 Takes Time scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665063746 Its hard work, stops and starts, deal with opportunities as they present themselves. May not live to see the society I want to see, but need to contribute to it as ancestors did. ]]> 2023-08-17 18:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665063746 Access to resources scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665064899 Finding resources to further these conversations.]]> 2023-08-17 18:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665064899 Compassion for this work scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665065972 Everyone has an idea but the actual work takes a lot of compassion. 


]]> 2023-08-17 18:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665065972 Pushing away from "Talented Tenth" model scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665066436 Takes many voices, get the balance of voices for a common goal]]> 2023-08-17 18:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665066436 Descendant experience scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665069802 What our rights are.
Descendant experience not openly discussed. 
Looking to educators in Africana studies space to carry the narrative.
Importance of descendants in these spaces.
People who lead are those who decided to leave.
Divide in the descendant space ]]> 2023-08-17 18:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665069802 Harms have been perpetuated everywhere https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665080798 The degree/impact of those harms is what differs]]> 2023-08-17 18:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665080798 Denial can happen anywhere scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665082216 Continual need to re-educate on harms and the impacts]]> 2023-08-17 19:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665082216 Apologies could happen anywhere scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083211 Apologies for all the harms (lynching, eminent domain) could happen anywhere and are often not heard.]]> 2023-08-17 19:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083211 White supremacy happens anywhere scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083385 2023-08-17 19:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083385 Disruption via infrastructure building happens anywhere scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083666 2023-08-17 19:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083666 Disruption of burial sites happens anywhere scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083828 2023-08-17 19:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665083828 Chicago 1919 Race riot https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665084855 Race massacres have happened all across the country, approximately 110 recorded instances. But Chicago and East St Louis were particularly heinous]]> 2023-08-17 19:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665084855 Local: “Stop the Harm” third party examination of city and county policy areas - Have discriminatory outcomes ceased? scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085570 2023-08-17 19:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085570 Local: I am not sure this is utterly unique but St. Paul has run experiments with universal basic income and baby bonds; also, one of the first cities I am aware of where a police chief ran a study on profiling on his own police force (Bill Finney) scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085718 2023-08-17 19:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085718 Chicago Racial Wealth Gap https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085849 Chicago owns the worst racial wealth gap according to Economist Raj Chetty]]> 2023-08-17 19:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665085849 Local: CA Petroleum and toxic waste from corporations in historically Black Communities. scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665086072 2023-08-17 19:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665086072 State of Black Ashville Project scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665098560 Undergraduate research project that started the momentum.]]> 2023-08-17 19:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665098560 Illinois African Descent Citizens Reparations Commission https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665099161 https://news.wttw.com/2023/06/10/illinois-commission-aims-research-reparations-educate-public-about-issue]]> 2023-08-17 19:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665099161 City of Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665099186 Recognition of Diamond James and the need for strong communications]]> 2023-08-17 19:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665099186 Mapping Prejudice Project scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665100948 Mapping St. Paul]]> 2023-08-17 19:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665100948 LA Black Experience Study scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665101732 Here is our public toolkit we're using to promote the LA Black Experience Study. We're right now conducting a study to hear from 4,000 former and current residents. Please share widely in case you know anyone who might be interested. ]]> 2023-08-17 19:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665101732 Elevating people's stories scdavid https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665102849 Stories that have been erased or silenced.]]> 2023-08-17 19:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665102849 Broadened View https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665105608 I now know that this work is taking many forms, and I appreciate the diversity of thought. It's very easy to only see your work, but to know we're all working toward a common goal w/ different methods is helpful.]]> 2023-08-17 19:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/scdavid/34exix7feu2l4pg9/wish/2665105608