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By PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Sat, 07/23/2016 - 6:29am

After standing silently on the sidelines, some whites who agree with demands by civil rights activists for greater police reforms say they're being spurred to action following this summer's fatal shootings of black men by officers in Minnesota and Louisiana and the deadly retaliation attacks on police in Texas and Louisiana. The group, calling itself Shaker Heights High School CommUnity Builders, will be pushing administrators this school year to better integrate sports and other extracurricular activities that tend to get segregated along racial lines, she said. At a Whole Foods store in the Boston suburb of Medford, Joanne Meehan said she would never consider speaking out on social media or attending a rally or protest — basic actions many activists are imploring of supportive whites. The recent killings of police officers complicate matters for some whites, who feel they have to choose sides and don't want to come across as against police, said Barbara Simmons, executive director of the Peace Center, a social justice organization in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb. More modest steps for reticent whites could include speaking about one's conflicted emotions to a black colleague or friend, building authentic relationships with black people through dinners or other social interaction, or even reflecting during prayer on their individual role in perpetuating racial violence. "There wouldn't be a Civil Rights Act or a Voting Rights Act without people from broad racial and ethnic groups lending their advocacy, their support and their money to get those landmark pieces of legislation passed," he said.

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