The Task Force and HR have chosen to partner with SAIR Collective as an impartial 3rd party to ensure that everyone has a safe space to talk about their experiences. We will not be sharing the specifics of any of our discussions with staff or residents.
To really answer the rest of these great questions, we need to define some terms that we will use as SAIR engages with your whole community.
We look at racism for Galloway Ridge through the lens of 3 types of racism, which we will define for you: Interpersonal (staff and staff, staff and resident, resident and resident), Organizational (Galloway's enacted policies and practices), and Systemic (law and cultural norms that privilege some groups). All groups of people at Galloway Ridge are part of these interactions, so that is why everyone is involved in the conversations.
Interpersonal Racism:
Also known as individual racism, interpersonal racism includes actions or interactions that intentionally or unintentionally express prejudice, hate, or bias based on race. Microaggressions, microinvalidations, and microassaults are all types of interpersonal racism.
Organizational Racism:
Organizational or institutional racism refers to the ways in which businesses and institutions can harm or privilege different racial groups through the creation and inequitable enforcement of policies and practices.
Systemic Racism:
Sometimes referred to as structural racism, systemic racism refers to the ways in which racist beliefs, biases, and outcomes are embedded into elements of our society. Systemic racism describes the ways in which laws, public policies, and cultural norms reinforce racial group inequity. Systemic racism includes dimensions and elements of our history and culture that have allowed privileges and disadvantages to be perpetuated on the basis of race. Systemic racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Instead it has been a feature of the social, economic, and political systems in which we all exist.
