Hello from Capitol Hill, Denver.

Hello everyone I’m Trish (she/her) in Denver, CO and I am here to learn about how to put reparations into practice as both an individual and organization. Thank you to our speakers for creating this space!

Am a Denverite and I’m here cuz reparations is something I’ve been drawn to in various ways for a long time and a friend is speaking too!! :-)

Louisville, CO, and I'm here because I read Randall Robinson's book "The Debt: What America owes to Blacks" and it made a big impression - he's so right

Tuning in from West Wash Park.

Hello, I live in Denver, CO. To continue to learn and utilize what I know into practice. Also, reparations is a topic that individuals do not want address as well as racism. It's been time to have these conversations and talk about whats right and just....

Hello from Denver. Hope to learn more about how to encourage congregational approaches to local reparations efforts. 🙏

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Here in Oakland, CA- land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. I really valued the Truth & Reparations session on 3/16 and am eager to learn more.

Agree BJ. I too enjoyed that session.

Hello from Denver. I am new to this topic and have so much to learn and am glad for the opportunity to be here.

Hello from Cheyenne and Arapahoe land or 80216 in Denver - here to learn about building economic power

Hello!

hate to interrupt. its hard to hear the panelists.

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ahhhh okay thank you.

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That's true allyship. Thank you Lotte.

THANK YOU, LOTTE!!!

Thank you for sharing your family’s history and acknowledgement of the past.

Lotte thank for confronting and being part of a path to healing.

Fantastic summary of our TRUE history, Lotte!

Thank you Harold

Wow. Thank you.

THANK YOU, HAROLD!!!

Thank YOU Harold. That was information needed to hear/learn.

Thank you Harold for sharing your story. The bad apple vs the bucket model is so critical to dismantling these systems and redefining a new path.

Thank you, Harold, for helping us think about the horrific story of Greenwood with your personal experience.

Yes Yessica! Chase corporation manages EBT card system. With every swipe they make $ off low income people.

Gracias 🙏🏽

Thank you Yessica - it’s always inspiring to be fueled by your visions of the future

Thank you!

THANK YOU, YESSICA!

Yessica, could you put your email in chat please? I didn’t get it. Thanks

@Yvonne, yes, completely extractive. Also, in Colorado, Walmart is the #1 effort to get people signed up for SNAP benefits. Unbelievable.

Yessica HolguinYessica@communitywealthbuilding.org

Contact Harold at fuzzyfield@aol.com

So much good information Yessica. Thank YOU.

Yessica its so powerful to hear how your story has translated to your current path. A lot of times only one element of the three is considered. Its easy for us to get into either or but all is necessary for change. Thank you for your vision and making the magic happen!

Thank you all! I truly appreciate you being here. We are all part of the solution to dismantle white supremacist culture. Let's make it happen!

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Sending love from Bueno Para Todos farm in Villanueva NM! Beverly is my greatest farming inspiration. She is one of my favorite people on the planet. Hoping to connect with you all in soon in our exchanges.

THANK YOU, ASIA!!

Thank you all!!!

Gratitude to each of you

That's beautiful. Thanks Asia.

How do we understand the dichotomy between the passage of H.R. 40 out of the House Judiciary Committee with the January 6 insurrection at the U. S. Capitol?  Can the country handle both reparations and white supremacy?

What I remember from Randall Robinson's book was his practical suggestion that reparations could be in the form of college scholarships. Probably because I teach college that makes sense to me - but would land grants or cash grants be more effective?

For Harold -- In terms of "Emergent Systems" how can we form and nourish communities of practice and grow their influence?

. . . here in Denver

What kinds of things/happenings/news/projects etc. give all 4 of you hope around the shifts that we know need to happen given how many white supremacists there are in this country?

I have to jump into a meeting. This was fantastic and I thank you for your time and information share!!!

In addition to scholarships, I would also encourage you all to work towards more equitable admission practices to ensure that scholarships are creating real opportunities.

Thanks, Lotte, excellent point!

I should also mention that I invested the first 12 years of my professional life devoted to opening doors of opportunity to underserved students. I believe in education.

Yes . . . reminds me of the old story about the importance of putting new wine into new wine skins to ferment because they can stretch! We need new mindsets, new forms, new systems. 🙏

In the spirit of Octavia Butler I’d love to hear what your vision what the world could look like 20 years from now.

The model Harold shared really resonates. I’m curious what thoughts the four of you have on the value of working within entities that are complicit in the existing power structure to encourage receptivity to change, while providing support or using privilege to provide shelter for the rising culture generating movement for change.

Harold, your model of change shows your systems engineer background but also is fascinating to ponder. I would like to hear you explore more about what you define as hospice work.

Yessica -- may it be so! 🙏

AHSE!

Amen, Lotte!

Yea, thanks, Lotte!

Tacos por todo!

YES, Asia!

Yes! Let's make it so.

Thank you for your vision— to all of the presenters!

Head: Thoughts that inspired

Heart: moments of inspirations

Hands: concrete actions.

The collective power of where each presenter is coming from. Emergent strategy -Healing through acknowledging the past, heart and vision for the future is what gives me the most hope.

Inspired to: Keep telling and promoting the truth and working with whites to help in the waking up process. I love thinking along the lines of hospice work. I took pics and want to review the slides and show to some others to inspire more discussion. I’m more deeply inspired to tell the truth and to encourage others to tell the truth. Feeling all the more relieved to be in a community that is exploring what to do with our money.

I want to help members of my church community and me deepen and grow our understanding of Beloved Community as a practical, lived experience, part of the emergent system of partial reparations.

I think for me, what struck me was the ending of Harold’s presentation about the native people’s. I had no idea about that history. But I am so appreciative of Harold’s history and family in OK. More stories need to be heard and taught in the classroom as a standard.

Head: eagerly chewing on the model Harold shared. Heart: really felt the transformation in Asia's sharing about bringing health to the local community. Hands: look for ways to engage in supporting the rising cultural change. Thank you all for your openness and willingness to share!

Heart: I found the emergent model very inspirational - thinking of little pockets of healing connecting with one another and replicating and building an alternative future!

So inspired by all the information shared, powerful!; moments of inspiration are many and specifically looking deeper into my personal history/narrative further; and the concrete action of continuing to be still, do my inner work and engage with leadership/truth/vision like what was so beautifully displayed here today.

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Thanks so much for your facilitation and sharing and heart, Asia. And Eden!

I want to encourage us ALL to TALK ABOUT the history of Greenwood and that next month is 100 year anniversary. We need to tell others. A LOT of people don

don’t know about it.

Thanks, all! 🙏