| A | B |
|---|
| Remain morally, emotionally, intellectually, and socially involved in dialogue. | Stay engaged |
| Being honest about your thoughts, feelings, and opinions and not just saying what you perceive others want to hear. | Speak your truth |
| Engaging in tough conversations that may make you feel uncomfortable. | Experience discomfort |
| Not looking to solve/answer all of the questions. | Expect and accept non-closure |
| The critical need to address race explicitly and intentionally. | Isolate race |
| Understanding how racial assimilation is present in everyday life. | Examine the role and presence of 'whiteness' |
| What is my own racial attitude, beliefs, and expectations? | Focus on personal, local, and immediate |
| Different racial groups offering different racial points of view as determined and defined by by their shared racial experiences. | Normalize social construction, and multiple perspectives. |
| Keeping us all at the table by focusing on the dialogue process as a way of ensuring greater safety and sustained, deeper introspection. | Monitor agreements, conditions, and establish parameters. |
| Examining and understanding how race is lived differently by white people and by people of color. | Establish a working definition for race. |
