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Communities of Color Meeting - Table #3 <br /> <br />Note taker: Char Mauch <br />Facilitator: Annie Bentz <br />Participants: Barb Bellows <br /> Brinda Narayan-Wold <br /> David Kelly <br /> Bobby Lee <br /> Yoon Shin <br /> Mike Clark <br /> Henry LuVert <br /> <br />Issues of white privilege - didn’t have awareness of gold star walking around with. How <br />to talk to broader community? Spite of last name Jewish - people talking and make anti- <br />Semitic remark. Difficult to respond to sometimes. <br />Recent trip to Toronto - very diverse - Caribbean - East Indian - like comment - not <br />representative of all people - reconnect with family, Visit helped reassess who I am - <br />now I say Caribbean Indian American woman. Toronto has bugs and humidity, but very <br />diverse. What is stopping Eugene from becoming this way? Open door to have people <br />come and make it diverse. <br /> <br />Notes taken today - wonder what closet they are going to be put it. Percentage of African <br />Americans same in Eugene today as it was 30 years ago. Feel marginalized. Own <br />business, but crew would go to white workers rather than me as the owner. Wife is <br />administrator. Deals with the same issues. Wife accused of reverse racism when people <br />of color hired. Always called on decision-making. People back us down to justify. Said <br />people of African American ascent, but used the term Negro. That couldn’t live in <br />certain areas - get calls all the time - had a young man tell him that worked at Monaco - <br />another employee said he was raised to hate niggers - had worked there 5 years. Finally <br />stood up for himself. When people ask me - is there racism in Eugene - lets me know <br />who they are involved with. White person needs to educate themselves about themselves <br />and others. In power to make changes. <br /> <br />Koreans were discriminated against and attacked when Hyundai came to area. <br /> <br />Family comes from poor background. Grandfather - sharecropper. Father grew up with <br />siblings in one room house. Appreciate opportunity to be in room. So many things I <br />don’t think about. Want to learn more. <br /> <br />Child is ½ of me and ½ Norwegian husband. In day care he got comments about his <br />beautiful skin color. Impact on other children of African American background. I was <br />aware, but I didn’t have words to say how their words impacted others. Need to look <br />and stop and think before commenting. <br /> <br />Company lost two court cases and had found bias against Koreans. Asked to turn this <br />around. Cases heard in California. Big picture. Not many Asian Americans in TV <br />positive roles. All aspects in day-to-day life. A bias is just a fact. <br /> <br />Communities of Color 9 July 12, 2006 <br />