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Monday, April 1 • 8:45am - 9:30am
Opening Keynote: I’m a good person! Isn’t that enough?

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Using historical and media images, Debby examines how she used her white-skewed belief system to interpret the world around her. Socialized on a narrow worldview, Debby explores how she spent decades silently reaffirming harmful, archaic racial patterns instead of questioning the racial disparities and tensions she could see and feel. This presentation and dialog is designed to support white people in making the paradigm shift from ‘fixing’ and ‘helping’ those believed to be inferior, to focusing on internalized white superiority and its role in perpetuating racism at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels.
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Debby Irving

Racial Justice Educator and Writer
Debby is a white woman, raised in Winchester, Massachusetts during the socially turbulent 1960s and ‘70s. After a blissfully sheltered, upper-middle-class suburban childhood, she found herself simultaneously intrigued and horrified by the racial divide observed in Boston. From 1984... Read More →

Monday April 1, 2019 8:45am - 9:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom
  General Session, Featured Speaker

Attendees (191)