The moral imperative to begin to correct some of the sins of slavery, by means of reparations, has been accepted by Buffalo Quakers. What does reparations mean? A fundamental understanding of this is in the protest songs of African Americans calling y’all to “take back what they stole from us!” What has been stolen? Hundreds of years of life and labor and wealth.
Avis Wanda McClinton 339 Manumissions and Beyond presentation
Learning to Create Antiracist Organizational Culture
For three Wednesday evenings in January 2025, seven members of Buffalo Quaker Meeting attended via videoconference a training called Creating Anti-Racist Organizations, which was presented by the Center for the Study of White American Culture (CSWAC) and sponsored by New York Yearly Meeting. Over 140 members of New York Yearly Meeting attended the training.
Buffalo Friends sign the Apartheid-Free Community Pledge
In Meeting for Business on February 16, 2025, the Friends approved the Meeting signing the Apartheid-Free Community Pledge from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Good Stewardship among Friends
Who Is My Neighbor When Black Lives Matter?
Winter solstice 2020. It’s always dark near Christmas but that year all seemed especially bleak. A covid vaccine was on the horizon, but even those of us designated as elderly would have to wait for months before our turn to be inoculated. Fear of disease, hospitalization, and death crippled our connections and made us afraid to be close to each other during our most joyous season.