HOW ARE

WE
THIS
HOW
DOIN
WE
RESPOND?
MOVEMENT?

VISION
RACIAL DISPARITIES HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED AND RACIAL EQUITY ACHIEVED

MISSION
END INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN CITY GOVERNMENT
PROMOTE INCLUSION AND FULL PARTICIPATION OF ALL RESIDENTS
PARTNER WITH THE COMMUNITY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS TO ACHIEVE
RACIAL EQUITY

A COMMON LANGUAGE
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
Policies, practices and procedures that
work better for white people and to the
detriment of people of color, often
unintentionally or inadvertently

STRUCTURAL RACISM

individual

ins+tu+onal

The history and current reality of

institutional racism across institutions

EQUITY (not equality)

Everyone gets what they need based on context
(history, present conditions and desired future outcomes)

structural

WHAT CREATES
DIFFERENT OUTCOMES?
Institutional / Explicit
Institutional / Implicit

Policies which
explicitly discriminate
Individual / Explicit
against a group.
Policies that
negatively impact one
Individual / Implicit
group unintentionally. Prejudice in action
Example:
discrimination.
Unconscious
Police department
Example:
attitudes and beliefs.
refusing to hire
Example:
people of color.
Police department
focusing on streetPolice officer calling
Example:
level drug arrests.
someone an ethnic
slur while arresting
Police officer calling
them.
for back-up more
often when stopping
a person of color.

CITY OF SEATTLE

Racial Equity Toolkit

RACIAL EQUITY TOOLKIT

CHOICE POINTS FOR

RACIAL EQUITY
Name race and racial inequities
Listen and be accountable to communities
of color (be relational)
Align strategies to leverage change and
create greater public will (collective action)
Evaluate progress over time and share
results

TOOLKIT EXAMPLES"
Stopped prosecuting people with suspended licenses
Created a policy to restrict the use of criminal
background checks in City hiring decisions, which
helped pave way for citywide policy
Implemented a more equitable process to collect Scoff
Law fines (4 or more unpaid parking tickets)
Created an implementation and oversight process for
new Seattle Preschool Program
Reduced total number and racial disproportionality in
warrants issued to youth
Currently informing affordable housing agenda

LESSONS LEARNED"
Use it early and often
Seattle Preschool Program

Awareness of other issues, policies and systems

(structural racial inequity)
Clarity about who is most impacted
Intersectionality (race + national origin; race + gender)

Repeat use start to internalize

Consistent use
Executive Order and Accountability Agreements
Training and technical assistance
Praise and lifting up examples

THANK YOU
Racial Equity Toolkit: http://www.seattle.gov/rsji resources
Diana Falchuk, Deputy Manager, Race & Social Justice Initiative
diana.falchuk@seattle.gov
206.684.5282
john powell, Director
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
University of California, Berkeley
vhash@berkely.edu
Julie Nelson, Director
Government Alliance on Race and Equity
206.816.5104
Julie.nelson@racialequityalliance.org