Facebook Publication Date: 8/21/2020 8:08

Good morning! This is Laura. I believe we’ve picked up some new walkers, and will continue to see new faces, since Ally Henny’s post yesterday on the situation between Lace on Race and The Christian Left. First and foremost, you are all welcome here. If you’ve only come to figure out what the fuss is about, you are welcome to see everything we’ve got. You’ll find material on this up and down the page over the course of the past couple of weeks. We recommend you start here:

Incidentally, if you were already here for Lace on Race, and have no idea what I’m talking about with Ally Henny, here’s a link to that… but NOTE that this is for your information ONLY, Lace insists that we keep our discussion/engagement focused here, and NOT overrun Ally’s page with any further comments:

So, visitors, you are absolutely welcome! If you are here with good intention, good intention means authentic engagement. You are welcome to ask genuine questions. You won’t be blocked or deleted. You will also be held to our page standards of no reacts, kind candor, and self-reflection in your engagement, so please review our Community Guidelines, which you’ll find linked in the pinned post at the top of our page. Please review the other links in the pinned post as well. These will set you on the right path for your time at Lace on Race.

A note especially about the guideline *NO REACTS* – This one will be a very new one for most of our visitors. Part of our engagement is to comment on the Lace on Race posts presented, NOT just Facebook “react” to them. So please, while you’re here, respect Lace’s house rule: no “Likes”, “Hearts”, “Wows”, etc. Please engage with reflective commentary. Personalize. Share what you may learn about yourself. You will see folks reacting to people’s *comments* on the original posts. That is acceptable as encouragement to each other, but should not be in place of deep engagement with our words. We know we are New People doing New Things in New Ways, and you may be used to “Liking” then scrolling and rolling. We ask that you be respectful of our rule while you’re here.

You may only be here to visit. You may have come just to take a peek at the kerfuffle. But day in, day out, this is a place for deep internal work, a laboratory of sorts, for us to observe and analyze how racism and white supremacy are a part of us and our society. We do all of this in service to our North Star, of lessening and mitigating the harm done to Black and brown people, perpetuated by white people (like me). We hope you will join us in this real and vital work as well. Welcome!

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