{"id":1488,"date":"2014-02-06T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2014-02-06T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:30:50","slug":"social-justice-expert-to-speak-on-flex-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/social-justice-expert-to-speak-on-flex-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Expert to Speak on Flex Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>Deepening the National Conversation on Race with Dr. Shakti Butler<\/b><b> : <\/b><i>Cracking the Codes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>W<\/b><b>e need to talk<\/b><b>: \u00a0Devastating racial inequity persists in the U.S<\/b>.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Special All-Campus Event, Wednesday, March 5, 1:00-3:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1491\" alt=\"Shakti Butler\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/Shakti-Butler.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/>Race, more than any other demographic factor, determines levels of individual\u00a0educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b>The conversation on race is shallow \u00a0and remains focused on individuals.<\/b><b>\u00a0 <\/b>It stops us from talking. It freezes our capacity to connect and act across crucial racial divides. If not interrupted, it is a system that is endlessly self-perpetuating.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What if we deepen the conversation?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A <i>Cracking the Codes<\/i> film\/dialogue event sets the stage for transformation in classrooms, conference rooms and communities by unpacking the system of racial inequity and enabling people to\u2014finally\u2014talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about race opens the way for institutional change. Authentic dialogue is a critical component of any equity effort.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands are talking with <i>Cracking the Codes<\/i>. This year over 10,000 people in communities and on campuses nationwide have participated in a live <i>Cracking the Codes<\/i> event with World Trust facilitators.<\/p>\n<p>Shakti Butler, PhD., is Founder and President of World Trust Educational Services.\u00a0 She is also the producer\/director of World Trust films.<b> <\/b>Dr. Butler shares her holistic framework for conveying the interconnection between internal and external\/structural components of<b> <\/b>racial inequity, and revealing how self-perpetuating systems reinforce disparities in institutions. This framing, along with the use of Butler\u2019s films, set the context for constructive conversation.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Date: Flex Day, Wednesday, March 5, from 1:00-3:30<br \/>\nLocation: tbd<br \/>\nContact: Nina L. Floro, 650-738-4414 \/ <a href=\"mailto:floro@smccd.edu\">floro@smccd.edu<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Nina Floro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepening the National Conversation on Race with Dr. Shakti Butler : Cracking the Codes \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}