SELECT SOME “COURAGEOUS QUESTIONS” FROM THE LIST BELOW AND ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION WITH THOSE AROUND YOU.

1. What is your ethnic background? How long has your family lived in this country?

2.What foods or artifacts remind you of home or family?

3.What are some common things you grew up hearing in your family about what it means to be your ethnicity regarding family, money, time, perseverance, sacrifice, education, etc?

4.Name a time when your eyes were open to ethnic injustice.

5.What are some of the beautiful things you appreciate about your culture?

6.What are some beautiful things you have appreciated about other cultures?

7.What are some of the broken responses that you have had to your ethnic identity?

8.What are experiences of ethnic tension or racism that have affected you, your family, or those close to you?

9.What are lies or false names about your ethnicity or your people that need to be removed?

10.If you could ask one question to someone of another ethnicity without the fear of judgement, being misunderstood, or sounding ignorant, what would you ask?

11.When were your eyes open to the reality of racism and/or prejudice?

12.How were your eyes opened to the reality of racism and/or prejudice?

13.How have you seen the racial climate change over the last 12 months since George Floyd was killed?

14.How did George Floyd’s death affect you and your family?

15.If resources were not an issue, what is one thing you would do to help heal the racial divide in the U.S.?  

16.What is one thing you have done over the last 12 months to help heal the racial divide in your sphere of influence?

17.What book has influenced you the most in the pursuit of justice?

18.What is one societal injustice you are most passionate to see changed?

19.How were your eyes first opened to this injustice?

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