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I feel the need to call particular attention to what we re seeing, which is the first majority person of color committee in our town where, if I m counting right, five out of six of those people of color will not be continuing the work, Nicoll said. I hope this forces our town to reckon with its past, its present, what we re doing. I know it s calling me to reckon with my work in this committee, and I hope to God it s calling leadership in this town to reckon with what has happened and where we need to go. I don t want to hear excuses from people about why this is happening. I think it is clear, and we ve got to stop hiding from it.
The Select Board last summer created what became the Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Committee as an advisory panel. Members of that panel this week questioned why the Select Board has not appeared willing to consider the advice the DIRE Committee has provided. I actually don t care how the Select Board feels about the resolutions, Aruna D Souza said. But if they re saying they re recommendations, so [they] don t have to act on them, it seems to me that, procedurally, there should be a point at which they decide, We don t have to act on them, and that should take place at an open meeting.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. As it nears the end of its inaugural year and faces the first departure of a founding member, the town s diversity committee Monday reflected on the importance of the discussions it has had and the perspectives it has centered in the town s conversation. One of the things I hope this year has started to plant the seeds of is whatever our backgrounds, whatever our races, whatever our identities, these are all issues that aren t about non-Black people helping Black people, Aruna D Souza said. They aren t about non-POC helping [people of color]. They re really about everyone coming together to build the community that they want themselves and their kids to grow up in.
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