As tensions grow amid police shootings of young black men and a presidential campaign rife with allegations of racism, a pastor in Sunnyvale, California is offering a venue called "Racists Anonymous" (RA) to get people talking, the Washington Post website reports today (September 1, 2016).
With the backdrop of a 12-step program, people can explore the often uncharted terrain of their own feelings about race, said Ron Buford, pastor of the Congregational Community Church in Sunnyvale.
"The first step is that you have to acknowledge that you have a problem," he said. "That is something that we as Americans don't want to do."
Eventually, Buford imagines a network stretching across the United States, so that -- like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) -- people can drop into an RA meeting wherever they go.
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