“I don't see my White colleagues talking about racial trauma. And then when I bring it up, it's like that aha moment... And if we don't...
“We’re not just talking about White people here. We’re talking about Whiteness as a set of practices that’s steeped in replicating forms of...
“In our field and in many helping profession fields we have been very slow in getting outside of single race ways of engaging human...
“Within the context of these [urban] neighborhoods, folks are confronted with all kinds of obstacles and challenges that get in the way of...
“Social workers are academically trained to lead important dialogue between diverse groups. We are the only professionals mandated to...
"We have to take a long term perspective of ourselves. At some point, I realized that we wouldn’t solve [racism] in my lifetime. I am just...
“I really appreciated so much doing this work in a cross-racial pairing, it changed my life in a lot of ways and by that I mean it was...
“A lot of what we participate in in the everyday doesn’t always meet with what it claims or purports to do and so we need to be critical...
It could be in the criminal justice system... the mental health system, it could be... whatever system for me when I think about, are you...
“In order to do clinical work, we have to have a macro understanding of why we are there in the first place. So having to navigate between...