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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
OBSERVING AND HONORING JANUARY 21, 2025, AS THE NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING IN COOK COUNTY
WHEREAS, on the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a National Day of Racial Healing marks a time to contemplate our shared values and role in addressing racism's present consequences; and
WHEREAS, the National Day of Racial Healing brings racial awareness to schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers, faith communities, local businesses, foundations and nonprofits, healthcare settings, artists and content creators, policymakers and decisionmakers; and
WHEREAS, this national event was created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on the foundation of the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) initiative, a comprehensive community-driven effort to bring about transformational and sustainable change while addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism; and,
WHEREAS, racial healing takes more than one day and requires that we acknowledge that racism affects all of us, whether we are aware of it or not, at school and jobs, when renting and shopping, visiting a doctor or trying to access healthy food, in interactions with the police, and in our social interactions and policies; and
WHEREAS, racial trauma and mental illness can form as the result of racism, racial inequality and forms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); and,?
WHEREAS, according to the National Center for PTSD, racial trauma can be defined as the cumulative traumatizing impact of racism on a racialized individual, which can include individual acts of racial discrimination combined with systemic racism, and typically includes historical, cultural, and community trauma; and,?
WHEREAS, according to Mental Health America, direct traumatic stressors include all direct traumatic impacts of living within a society of structural racism and/or the impact of individual racist attacks such as being heavily policed, barriers to home ownership due to inequitable ...
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