<p>So much for the argument that racism doesn&#8217;t exsist. There&#8217;s a Racists Anonymous group that proves otherwise.</p>
<p>According to WCNC, Trinity United Church of Christ in Concord, N.C. is one of the major spearheads behind RA &#8212; the weekly attempt to begin the healing process of one of America&#8217;s worst cancers&#8211;racism.</p>
<p>RA is modeled after any other anonymous meeting&#8211;led by a licensed therapist and follows the traditional 12-step model and attendees are encouraged to share as much or as little as they&#8217;re comfortable with.</p>
<p>The churches reverend, Nathan King said his call-to-action came as a replacement for &#8220;just prayer.&#8221; Answering the request of one of its California sister churches to try the meetings, TUCC took on the responsibility of introducing RA to N.C.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seemed like every week we were coming into worship and we were doing another prayer because someone had been killed in the street,&#8221; Nathan said. &#8220;It&#8217;s to deal with the racism within ourselves and to eliminate the racism within ourselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>About twelve people gather in the churches fellowship hall&#8211; who have reportedly mostly been church members. Community members from surrounding neighborhoods have been making appearances at the meetings more and more lately.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s it like at an RA meeting? We&#8217;re sure slightly awkward! Reverend King describes it as &#8220;difficult.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was difficult. From day to day, I find myself in that place of racism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It may not be the first thing you want to talk about at Thanksgiving dinner with your family, but those conversations are going to be more common going forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the RA organizers said that the goal of RA is to &#8220;change systematic racism in the United States of America.&#8221;</p>
<p>People will have their opinions but we think RA isn&#8217;t too bad of an idea. But does this suggest that racism is a sickness or disease as opposed to a learned behavior?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s chat!</p>
<p>source: WCNC, <a href="http://www.wcnc.com/mb/news/local/racists-anonymous-meets-in-charlotte/307308310" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">http://www.wcnc.com/mb/news/local/racists-anonymous-meets-in-charlotte/307308310</a></p>
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