You may also use this source as you see fit, incidents of injustice to Indigenous Americans in Stern, the Into America podcast on South Lake, Texas.
Goal: To end the semester on a positive note by focusing on the acts of white Americans who believe that they and the nation have an obligation to reckon with the full history of the supremacy of whiteness from the arrival of English Puritans to the present and to repair the ongoing harm done to people of color. Be sure to include descriptions of the responses of POC to white outreach and acts of repentance and reconciliation.
You must choose one specific example from each of the required texts, i.e., Jones, Smith, and McGhee, of harm, unequal treatment and/or injustice. Discuss briefly but with detail:
1. What rendered it as harmful, unequal, or unjust in the past and today
2. Who or what, e.g., a state government, city or white mob, Confederates, Christian churches, etc. was responsible for the harm, injustice, etc.
3. The action of reparations taken, by whom and how long after the beginning of the injustice
Then:
4. Describe a harm, injustice, or unequal treatment that you would like to see repaired and discuss a doable, appropriate, and sufficient means of delivering that reparation. Try to keep it as close to your experience as possible. For example, think about any policies, practices, behaviors, images, etc. at LMU that you think need to be discussed more widely or honestly on campus. Or there might be something to be done in your workplace, church, community, fraternity, or sorority, etc.
