NAME IT. CLAIM IT. FIX IT.

Repair and remedy harms and take action to foster racial healing and restorative justice, based on the results of an in-depth study to determine the legacy, continuing, and multi-generational effects of racism on local Black, Brown, and White residents.

Actions

Commission an in-depth study focused on race-based discrimination, actions, impacts, and effects in:

• housing,

• education,

• health care,

• business and economic opportunity,

• generational wealth,

• property ownership,

• law enforcement,

• civic leadership and participation,

• community cohesion, persistence and self-determination,

• religious life,

• public safety,

• public image and advertising,

• educational, civic, and tourist narratives,

• public and private depictions and promulgations of the history and story of different racial groups in Williamsburg.

In the study, detail the impacts of both public and private individuals and groups, whether policy or practice, conscious or subconscious, committed or omitted, intentional or the result of uncontested norms or practices.

As a way to acknowledge a history of racial harm and wrongdoing and undertake a sustained process of repair, create a dedicated capital Legacy of Racism fund to address disparity in the effects of racism on Black, Brown, and White residents, recognizing that racism has created significant benefit to some at the expense of others.

Agencies

• Williamsburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority

• Descendant community representative(s)

• Williamsburg-James City County School Board representative(s)

• Chamber of Commerce

• Church community

• York, James City, Williamsburg NAACP

• Police and Fire Departments

• Coming to the Table: Historic Triangle

• All Together Williamsburg

• Juneteenth Community Consortium

• Williamsburg Regional Library (Board of Trustees)

• League of Women Voters

• Real People Educating Others

• Williamsburg-James City County Coalition for Community Justice

Outcomes

Consideration, awareness, transparent conversations, engagements, and direct actions to:

• Decrease and eliminate race-based discrimination and practices, making real the true and restorative vision of One Williamsburg;

• Establish a monthly series of public seminars and dialogues sponsored by the City that focus on healing from the legacy of slavery and race-based discrimination in Williamsburg.

With the goal of building:

• A Williamsburg where the impact of racism has been named and publicly acknowledged throughout the City’s private and public groups and organizations, existing race-based discrimination and practices have been dismantled, and the multi-generational legacy of slavery and systemic race-based oppression is disrupted and remedied by intentional explicit reparative and healing actions.