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Cities creating racial ‘healing’ committees to confront past
Sep 19, 2020
The Associated Press
September 19, 2020, 11:00 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A growing number of cities across the U.S. are creating committees and task force panels aimed at discussing racial tensions and confronting the past.
From Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Clemson, South Carolina, towns and municipalities recently have formed committees to deliberate the future of debated Confederate and Spanish colonial monuments or address systemic racism in police departments.
In some communities, religious leaders are forming their own racial healing committees to devote attention to racism. Phoenix Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Olmsted announced in July to formations of the “Racial Healing and Reconciliation Commission” in the Diocese of Phoenix to identify “where bias and prejudice cause injustice” and offer recommendations.
The mostly volunteer committees seek to have honest — and sometimes emotional — discussions about their cities’ past around race and vow to propose ideas to create more inclusive environments.
In Albuquerque, the Race, History & Healing Project is trying to determine what the city should do with a statue of a Spanish conquistador on the grounds of the Albuquerque Museum. Some Native Americans find the image offensive while Hispanic residents who trace their families’ lineage to early Spanish settlers say the statue is a reminder of their own struggles.
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