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Script page 72) In addition to helping to identify legacy and flow, the process of collecting and

sharing information can be a useful organizing activity.

The information that is learned about current racial disproportionality in key institutional

areas (educational attainment, home ownership, income, etc.) can be used as a wake-up call. Doing

a power analysis that looks at how money, influence, decision-making and relationships affect

current outcomes for various groups can guide racial equity work and point out possible areas of

resistance. (racialequity.org) In addition, understanding current racial and power dynamics

includes knowing the organizations and individuals currently working on related issues, what each

contributes and how they might influence this as a unified work-in-progress (like this dissertation).

While many of the objectives of Community Conversations come together and convene with

determination and success it is also helpful to plan for the long haul.

A true Community Conversation effort is on-going and not a onetime, one off invitational

event, the work must be carried on and virally spread globally where not just organizations lead

the charge but neighbors, friends and allies to a cause invite one another into their home to perhaps

view a video and then talk about the social issues at hand. National, regional and local trends that

I have spotted growing within this realm also offer opportunities if one can anticipate them and

build strategies into plans to take advantage of them – then a coherent movement, one that is

organic in syntheses can aspire to actually take-on, tackle and resolve global social issues to co-

create shared desired sustainable futures that thereby foster holistic egalitarian purposes within CC

gatherings. New realities now become possible and this is the ultimate outcome for creating a

‘Metasphere’ for transformation.

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