Summer Dinner Lecture featuring Rinku Sen

“Why Diversity Does Not Equal Equity”
Taking on Today’s Racial Climate.

Thursday July 14th at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Multi-Purpose room 1010 S. Pearl Expressway

Special Guest Host: Joy Strickland, CEO Mothers Against Teen Violence

http://www.matvinc.org/

Rinku Sen is a leading figure in the racial justice movement with expertise in feminism, immigration, economic justice, philanthropy and journalism.

http://www.arc.org/content/view/44/43/

Rinku Sen, whose Dallas discussion is titled "Why Diversity Does Not Equal Equity: Taking On Today's Racial Climate" says that too often racism is framed as an individual issue rather than a systemic problem. People who do not harbor racist feelings themselves are often not aware that they are unconsciously living in, and contributing to, a system whose very structure keeps people of color down. Because of this, Sen describes herself as "hard on the problem; soft on the people."

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