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2 <br /> <br />Include race and immigration as topics (10) <br /> <br /> <br />PARTICIPANTS <br /> <br />Give younger people a voice (1, 9) <br /> <br />City sponsored conversation like today including youth. (1) <br /> <br />We need to listen more, and hear the voices and stories of minorities (2) <br /> <br />Hear new voices, not the same ones all the time (2) <br /> <br />City goes to the same people of color for feedback; needs to move to another level (2) <br /> <br />Some people of color who have very strong voices don’t get invited to speak (2) <br /> <br />Include people not here today, not at the table today (1) <br /> <br />Bring more people into our community (1) <br /> <br />Open door to have people come and make it diverse (3) <br /> <br />Who’s missing: White minority groups (nationalities), fundamentalists, business <br />community (employers; discuss economics). Teachers (9) <br /> <br /> <br />ACT! <br /> <br />Stop the dialogue and do things. We’ve been talking about it for 20 years and we’re tired <br />of talking (1) <br /> <br />Need issues to work on…not sure I want another meeting just to have discussion (3) <br />Narrow and specific directions as to next steps (4) <br /> <br />How to continue so we aren’t starting over all the time (3) <br /> <br />Action items: employee training, enforcement and consequences, negative perceptions of <br />Eugene, deficit model, accountability, 4J Diversity plan (5) <br /> <br />Remember that social change happens slowly. (2, 4) <br /> <br /> <br />INTERACTIONS WITH LARGER COMMUNITY; WHITE PEOPLE <br /> <br />Who is having conversations with the white people? Who is having the conversations <br />with the people who can make a difference? What is being said when we leave the <br />room? (1) <br /> <br /> <br />