MSA testing
Testing for racism, testing your patience
Shaping your experience
Your culture
A culture of racism, cultural or institutional
Testing our institutions, our resolve
Our children are testing
Our preferences, bias, and power
The power of a test
The racism of the test
Testing
--Ken, Action Team Member
Written after our last session during which we evaluated our MSA Night project through the lens of racism. Powerful conversation. Powerful poem.
Action Team members join with IMPACT's Neighbors Campaign volunteers to go door-knocking at Essex House apartments on Maple Avenue in Takoma Park. We knocked on 130 doors to share info and make connections with our neighbors living at the complex. We also invited residents to a Neighbors Exchange being held in their community room the following Tuesday.
The Neighbors Exchange at Essex House had record breaking attendance! Here, Ken (5th grade teacher at PBES and Action Team member) chats with a parent about the upcoming MSA. Ken staffed a resource table at the event.
