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Alison: In the UU community,
sometimes if you're

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a person of color,
it's hard to feel

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like you have that community
within the larger community.

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With experiences like these,
it's kind of a validation

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that other people know
the same kind of issues

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you're having, the
same kind of questions

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and exploring that together.

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Lia: An experience
like this is missing

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from a lot of our lives.

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I didn't even know
that I was missing it

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until I experienced it.

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Ellie: I didn't
really understand

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how not having a lot
of people of color

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has affected my upbringing.

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When I became a young
adult and I bridged out,

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I came back and
started looking at it

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a little bit of a different way
because I did notice that it

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was predominantly white.

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And I didn't really feel like
I had much of a place in it.

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Kevin: For all of
us, it definitely

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is pretty isolating being
youth and young adults of color

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in our congregation.

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You just want to be
with your people.

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And so it's been really
healing and liberating.

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Alex: It's a lot of fun and
you learn a lot of things.

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And you think of things you
may have never thought about.

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And it shapes the
way that you think.

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Alison: More than
just the fun that I've

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had-- because it was really
such a good time-- just

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about what it means to become
more active in racial justice.

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Unitarian Universalists
acknowledge that social justice

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is so important.

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Where racial justice, we
still have a lot to do.

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["THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE"]

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Lia: Strong leadership
towards people

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of color-- I really
don't get that

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in my congregation, at all.

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And even though I knew
that that was missing,

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I didn't exactly know it.

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Definitely, I've learned to
speak up for what I believe in.

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Yashi: I'll most
likely be bringing

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a couple of these topics
back to my youth group.

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These are still issues
that bother my friends

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in my congregation.

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So this is something that I
know they'll love to talk about.

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If you're a person
of color, this

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is something I really
believe you should do.

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["WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING
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