Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism
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KENNETH L. RADCLIFFE
About the Author Rev. Kenneth L. Radcliffe is a Permanent Deacon for the Archdiocese of New York. He served as an Administrative Chaplain, (Retired), for the New York City Department of Correction. His assignments included Rikers Island, detention centers, in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Detention Center, MDC, also known as “The Tombs.” He is a trained Substance Abuse/Addictions counselor. He has worked as a Case Manager in a Homeless Shelter, and conducted relapse prevention programs for licensed outpatient drug and alcohol treatment programs. He is the Author of two reports soon to be published, “The Crisis of the Poor in Black Urban America and The Challenge for a Church in Crisis to Face It!” The Deacon’s Report! The Second is “The Crisis of the Poor in Black Urban America, a Challenge for the President and Corporate America!” The Deacon’s Report.
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Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism - KENNETH L. RADCLIFFE
Contents
Introduction
I
A Brief History
II
Racism Is A Disease
III
Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles To The Disease Of Racism Comparisons/Similarities To Alcoholism
IV
Why Racism Should Be Of Concern To Clinicians And Individuals Who Aspire To Counsel Others In The Areas Of Alcohol, Drug, And Other Substance Abuse/Addictions
V
The Black Church; Source Of The Africans Strength Then And Now The Church Of Philadelphia Rises
Bibliography
Definition Of Alcoholism*
The Impact Of Alcohol Drugs And Racism On The Poor In Black Urban America
Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles
To The Disease Of Racism
This book is based on a paper, Applying AA ( Alcoholics Anonymous) Principles to the Disease of Racism, that was originally written and submitted in partial completion of the requirements for the
Training Program on Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency
Counseling, Rockland Council on
Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependence Inc. in June 1994 by the author
Kenneth L. Radcliffe
Revised November 2, 2011
To my wife Shirley, daughters, Kendahl, Lisa, grandsons Elijah, Justin,
and family, thank you.
To the Church and a special group of Men and Women of Faith who have helped me on this path. Thank You.
To Sandy Bernabei of the AntiRacist Alliance, Ron Chisom,
David Billings and Margery Freeman of the People’s Institute;
Robert Bob
Gangi, Dr. Barbara Wallace, Black Men, Men of Color (MOC), Black Women, Women Of Color (WOC), Jackie Rowe-Adams, Gabriel Sayegh, Goodie and Jeanette Goudeau, Fr. Ben Taylor,
The Correctional Association of New York, Thank You.
This Book is dedicated to the Memory of Kathleen Moran
Introduction
"Racial tensions and conflicts between groups are due
primarily to issues of power, privilege and control…"¹
Segregation, discrimination, bias, prejudice, bigotry, separation, apartheid, racism, double standard, partiality, and equality are terms used in the course of daily living. In a word, the sun never seems to set without a person or persons experiencing through sight, sound, thought, feeling, or opinion some one or a multiple of these words. They are expressed, experienced, or encountered in most aspects of the American society, whether in our interpersonal relationships at home, on the job, in academia, the marketplace, or experienced and interpreted for us through media, print and electronic.
Racism, it can be said, is one of the major issues of the day—past New York City mayoral elections, the elections in South Africa, the racial strife in Rwanda, the ethnic cleansing
in Sarajevo, the strife in Israel, and we should not exclude the continued prosecution of the Nazis as a result of their earlier attempts to annihilate the Jews. Another example is the charges of anti-Semitism directed at Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam several years ago. Charges and countercharges of racism continue being hurled between groups: White People, Black People, Jews, Muslims, etc.
Rationale
The purpose of this book will be threefold. First, it will seek to demonstrate that racism is a disease, a mental illness. Its symptoms are similar to those of the disease of alcoholism. Second, that racism like alcoholism has not been proven curable at this point in time. However, like alcoholism, it is treatable. The symptoms can be arrested! A treatment plan for the victims of racism, primarily African Americans and other peoples of color living on the North American continent will be suggested and why. Because the lives of these victims of racism, like the lives of those affected by the behavior of the alcoholic in most instances, are dysfunctional. Finally the origin and role of the Black Church’s resistance to racism in America will be described briefly.
In order to accomplish this task, the structure of this paper will be as follows:
I. A Brief History: The Evolution of Racism
A. Definition of terms
1. What is racism?
2. Who is a racist?
II. Racism is a Disease
III. Applying Alcoholics Anonymous Principles to the Disease of Racism
Comparisons/Similarities to Alcoholism
IV. Why Racism Should Be of Concern to Clinicians and Individuals Who Aspire to Counsel Others in the Areas of Alcohol, Drug, and Other Substance Abuse/Addictions
V. The Black Church; Source of the Africans’ Strength Then and Now
I
A Brief History
We begin the brief history with a few references from the following historical sources. Dr. Brewton Berry, in his book, Race Relations,"—Interaction of Ethnic and Racial Groups, states that the system of racism as we know and experience it today evolved slowly out of the institution of slavery, introduced first by the