As Putney Friends Meeting gathered this month, we reconsidered our witness regarding racism.
The Meeting reaffirmed the following Minute from New England Yearly Meeting of Friends from 2003 “to becoming an open, affirming, anti-racist Religious Society”:
“Our understanding of racism is that it is a system that accords advantage or disadvantage based on racial identity. Racism is fundamentally inconsistent with the divine guidance that has led our Religious Society to testimonies such as Equality, Peace, and Community.
“We seek divine assistance and the help of other friends of Truth to examine our individual and corporate complicity in racism. We aspire to a more perfect union with the Author of all, who shows no partiality in the diversity of creation.”...