Zootopia

Ask Richard about cautions and/or coaching he has received — warnings — from those who care about him in terms of relating (or not relating) with those who are different from him.

Ken — a quick walk through Woman at the Well, .

Ken — transition to clip by talking about the words we use to categorize ourselves and others.

Scene 3 — 13:32 - 14:30 — What can we say — cute and donuts

Ask Richard to help a caucasian pastor in a caucasian town understand the power of the N word… what it means and represents.

Ask Richard to help our church and community understand how and why that word is not ok for whites to use but it is ok for African Americans to use?

Ken — set up Nick and Judy.

Scene 4 — 18:34 - 26:00 — Sly foxes and dumb bunnies

-The rabbit follows the fox into the store only because the fox was a fox. We might call that “fox profiling.”

Ask Richard to talk about a time recently when he felt “profiled” for no reason other than the color of his skin.

Richard — it would be good if you answered with two specific examples — one of just you; and a second that includes you and your family.

-In the scene, Judy calls Nick — the fox — “a real articulate fella.” He thanks her for being non-patronizing when it’s clear he believes she is being patronizing. Anything like that ever happen to you?

-Richard… “sly fox. dumb bunny. you can only be what you are.” Being an African American man growing up and currently living in almost entirely caucasian settings, talk about a declaration that you have had placed over you that you have chosen to resist and replace.

KEN SET UP NEXT SCENE

Scene 5 — 56:17 - 1:00:02 — Two things I learned

-Richard, do you have --- or have you ever had --- the vow of “never let them see that they get to you” at work in your life? Where did that come from.

Has there been a time — recently — where things did “get to you”?

-In the movie, Nick has not only resigned himself to the labels placed on foxes, he has decided to embody them. He sees doing anything else as futile and useless.

-Richard, perhaps you’ve had times in your life where the labels put on you have been or are profoundly powerful.

Would you be willing to talk about a time or season in your life when you adopted the fox’s approach — to go with those labels and not fight them.

Would you then be willing to talk about how or why you decided to lay those labels down and move in another direction?

Scene 6 — 1:33:23 - 1:34:42 — Why work on these things

Richard, in a world that is as caucasian and conservative as the community we live in, why is this discussion and why are these issues even important.

2 Timothy 2:1–2 ESV

1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.