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This year’s murder of George Floyd by several Minneapolis police officers has laid bare, once again, the reality of systemic racism in America. In this conversation, the Rev. Ada Renée Williams addresses anti-racism and what is required from the white community in order to undo the systems that erect and reinforce structural racism. The Rev. Ada Renée Williams is an anti-racism thought leader for faith communities and a sought-after preacher, teacher and anti-racism trainer. She is a scholar-activist who is an ordained Itinerant Elder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church serving as the minister of social justice and civic engagement at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a master of divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California, and certificates in black church/Africana religious studies and women’s studies in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where she is currently a doctoral student in womanist ethics and Africana religious studies. She is the creator and curator of #WomanistWednesdays: A Digital Engagement; founder of the Pastoral Care: Black Trauma Network; and a former board member of Carrie’s Touch, an African-American breast cancer advocacy and education organization in Sacramento, California.
For those who wish to do their homework, she recommends beginning with The New York Times’ 1619 Project (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2…) and the book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragilit…).
