Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred, hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach.
The goal of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred Program is to cultivate Upstanders who are aware of the power of hatred in human decision making and to provide community members an opportunity to learn important concepts of history, civic awareness, and social justice. This program empowers community members to reflect and act.
We must find ways to talk and interact with each other beyond boundaries. At the same time, we must create ways to disallow hatred in our culture, two actions that may seem contradictory, but are essential in this time of our society’s history.
In each session of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred sessions, we will share a critique of a piece of hate rhetoric, extremism, and/or antisemitism, with the goal of educating the community on how to recognize, reflect on and respond to hateful content.
Coordinated with social media outreach, we offer a series of six workshops co-facilitated by Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D.; Holocaust and Genocide Education Endowed Chair – Celebrating the Life of Survivor Naomi Warren and Beverly Nolan, Ed.D., Chair – Education Advisory Committee, Holocaust Museum Houston.
On Monday, April 26, we address the long history of xenophobia (a fear of strangers, or fear of someone who is different from us) and the rising incidents of hate crimes directed toward the Asian communities of the United States. With leaders from national and Houston-based organizations, we discuss strategies to promote agency and actions to #StopAsianHate.
Moderator:
Gary Nakamura – Immediate Past President, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Houston Chapter
Panel of Speakers:
- Debbie Chen – National Executive Vice President, OCA Asian Pacific American Advocates
- David Inoue – National Executive Director, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
- Alice Lee – President, Chinese American Citizen Alliance (CACA), Houston Lodge 2020 Board of Officers
- Thu Nguyen – Director of OCA (National), OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates
- John C. Yang – President and Executive Director of AAJC (National), Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
