WCC Executive Director talks about "Waking up to my Whiteness"
Waking Up to My Whiteness by Rev. Scott Anderson, Executive Director, Wisconsin Council of Churches (Reprinted with permission from the Sept. 2014 edition of Ecunews)
Moving to Madison from Sacramento, California—named TIME magazine’s “Most Integrated City in America” in 2003—was a rude awakening. Within a week I was conscious that my work and neighborhood environments were virtually all white.
Within a year I had reached the conclusion that race was the elephant in the middle of Wisconsin’s living room, overshadowing every political, social, and cultural issue in this state. The dismal and morally outrageous statistics are all too familiar. This past spring, the nonpartisan Annie E. Casey Foundation issued a report showing Wisconsin ranked 50th out of 50 states in the well-being of Black children. continue reading . . .