Race Amity Roundtables

In the spirit of unity, service, and education for peace, Riders for Race Amity (R4RA) invites you to host a Race Amity Roundtable — a community conversation that moves dialogue about race beyond blame or guilt, and toward understanding, friendship, and action.

What is a Race Amity Roundtable?

A Roundtable is a structured, youth- and adult-facilitated conversation that brings people together to share stories, listen deeply, and build empathy across lines of difference. These gatherings consistently transform participants’ perceptions of race and belonging, fostering a shared commitment to unity and justice.

Each Roundtable explores meaningful themes designed to spark insight and connection.

A few of the topics we offer include:

This module examines the process of exclusion, marginalization, and structural Iniquity(othering), in order to remediate and build a world based on inclusion, fairness, justice, and care for the Earth (belonging).

This module learns about the science of our efficient brains which organize information through categorization and association, allowing humans to process information quickly and unconsciously. The barrage of daily information through the media and other sources over the years, easily primes our brains to think in certain ways. These automatic unintentional judgments, help us to make quick decisions for survival, but can lead to unfair treatment of other others – unconscious bias. Humans need to bring their thinking to the conscious level, especially in forming cross-racial relationships, and be humble when an unconscious bias occurs.

Our Race Amity Roundtables follow a warm, participatory format

1
Introduction

We begin with an introduction to Riders for Race Amity and why Race Amity is such an important framework for unity and healing.

2
Video Presentation

A short video introduces the chosen theme.

3
Reflection

Participants take five minutes to reflect quietly on what resonated or challenged them.

4
Small Group Dialogue

Participants then break into small groups of 5-7 people, each with a trained facilitator. Guided by reflection questions, the group explores insights from the video and discusses how to translate this knowledge into meaningful action.

5
Large Sharing Circle

We close by coming back together in shared dialogue - or, if preferred, youth and adults can meet in separate sessions to allow for deeper comfort and openness in discussion

Where Can a Race Amity Roundtable Take Place?