Day 21: Closing 

Thank you for being a part of the 21-Day Social & Racial Equity Challenge. Hopefully you will take what you have gained into the world. This can be hard for people new to racial justice work. Engaging in racially mixed settings can trigger age-old power and privilege dynamics. The goal is to be a learner more than a knower, exactly the opposite of what dominant U.S. culture teaches us to be.

Here are some Engagement Tips to guide you:

ACT

Though many people want to jump to action sooner instead of later, action without a vigorous self-education and self-reflection practice can unexpectedly reproduce the very power and privilege dynamics we seek to interrupt in this work. Here are a few actions that you might consider:

• Invite friend(s), family, and/or colleagues to do the 21-Day Challenge with you.

• Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes. Click HERE for some advice about how.

• Invite friend(s), family, and/or colleagues to join you for one or more of your daily “to-do’s” for a low-threshold invitation into the work and introduction to the 21-Day Challenge.

• Find organizations doing racial justice work and support them through donating your time, money, and other resources. 

• When the status quo is racist, disrupt it. No matter how big or small put yourself out there to create change. No need to wait until you are comfortable disrupting; it may never get comfortable, though you will get better at managing discomfort!

• Create a Soundtrack4Justice playlist that fuels you and/or can serve as a conversation starter with people of all ages. You can find an example of a soundtrack on Youtube, Apple Music by one of the creators of the 21 day challenge.