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The Stratford Town Council amended a resolution on racism before voting last month. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch)
STRATFORD, CT — Several Stratford residents recently spoke against the many changes made to a resolution on racism before it was approved last month by the Town Council.
"Stratford is not the squeaky clean place that we think it is, there is a lot of implicit bias and there is a lot of discrimination," resident Barbara Heimlich said at the public forum preceding the council's meeting last week.
The changes to the resolution removed language that: referred to racism as a public health crisis, sought periodic reports to town administrators and councilmen on racial equity goals, and requested improved data on and analysis of inequities within town initiatives.