Talking about diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in hockey

照片：Bradley Sheppard

A retired Black military veteran from Cape Breton who is also an diversity, inclusion, and equity consultant is hosting a series of online meetings with members of Sport PEI to talk about about racism and leadership in sports.

布拉德利谢泼德说，他通过曲棍球佩皮与体育培育线联系起来。Sheppard在哈利法克斯的黑色小曲棍球播放器中达到曲棍球培养基，他说，他在去年11月在夏洛特敦的曲棍球比赛中反复嘲笑。

来自PEI的五名小曲棍球运动员被暂停并命令以反应这一事件采取反种族主义培训。上个月CBC报道至少有一些球员自提出上诉以来。

“为了他们呼吁，它告诉我，他们看不到有什么问题，”Sheppard在审查员的采访中说。“那里在于我接近这些组织的原因。”

Sheppard is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant who owns and operates Sheppard Diversity Training. He said he’s currently in talks with Hockey PEI to have similar, but in-person, meetings with its members once COVID restrictions are lifted.

“我实际上伸出了曲棍球裴[第一]因为当我看到那边发生了什么时......我想到了年轻的黑人，他和他的家人正在经历，”谢泼德说。“但我也想到了岛上的气候以及为什么发生这种情况。”

“我的角色基本上是我是社区倡导者。我有过生活的经历，我已经经历了这个。我在20年后从军队退休。我在篮球场上经历了种族主义，在更衣室里，我知道这是什么感觉，对吗？我在佩皮上扮演这项运动的黑人，我喜欢谁。所以，对我来说，我也在考虑他们。“

Sheppard说，在达到曲棍球裴举出支持后，当他们在10分钟后向他邮寄时，他很惊讶。

“Hockey PEI, in my opinion, knows there are challenges within the organization and within the sport itself. And I think they’re taking proactive measures and trying to address that,” he said.

Sheppard表示，他与曲棍球裴沟通，以建立未来的亲自会话，他感觉更加有效。

“They are on board. We’re just we’re just trying to create a timeline that works best,” he said. “Plus, with this work, I know a lot of folks like to do it online, but the nuances and connections happen in person. And so, for me to do this effectively, one of my asks was, ‘Can we wait till this is in person?’ Because I don’t want a check in the box. I don’t want a one-and-a-half-hour Zoom saying, ‘Hey, we did it.’”

“我们必须亲自拥有嘎吱嘎吱的对话，”他说。

Sheppard表示，在此与此与运动PEI相连的同时，他与该组织的举办了Zoom会议。

“I met with the director of Sport PEI and 25 other members of the community that signed up. I don’t know exactly what the roles and responsibilities were, but it was a full house.”

Sheppard表示，在第一届会议上，他谈到了奴隶制，抗黑色种族主义和不同类型的种族主义的遗产。在下届会议中，他计划谈谈多样性和包容，无意识的偏见和同理心。

“You’ve got to remember this is new for a lot of people, right? And so most people want buzzwords, diversity, inclusion.

“But I had to get into the social context. Why is it the way we think, the way we do?”

“But then there’s outcomes that have to be met. So, you take the learning and then you create outcomes, or boundaries or, repercussions to behavior, or consequences.”

“You have folks understand why it’s an infraction. And this is why and how long you’re going to be reprimanded for because of that. Sometimes parents don’t know what they don’t know, and that’s why this is so pervasive.”

审查员达到曲棍球裴，以评论会议。就像这种写作一样，我们没有听过，但我们会在我们做的时候更新这个故事。

Though Sport PEI is not the governing body of Hockey PEI, Sport’s PEI’s role is to provide various supports to its member organizations, including Hockey PEI.

The executive membership of Sport PEI is all white. In an interview with the Examiner, Sport PEI executive director Gemma Koughan, who attended the meeting with Sheppard, said she’s satisfied with how it went and has since received positive feedback from the people who attended. Koughan said what everyone at the session appreciated was that Sheppard used his own lens of perspective, which she said “enhanced” the messaging.

“I think for those of us of that are not [people of colour], you know, we would have conversations with other folks and they’ll say, ‘Well, you know, I’ve never I never witnessed that.’ And Bradley would say a lot of times … if it happens to a person of colour, they don’t necessarily say anything or it’s not predominant in their life. So, I think everybody was just there to listen and learn.”

“He’s been a great source of information … now that we kind of build a relationship with someone like Bradley, if we’ve got questions or we want to continue to do some more learning and even target different groups beyond just our members … maybe it’s targeting athletes that are specifically targeting coaches or officials or whatever the case may be … it’s nice to have someone that you can reach out to and [who] has that passion and knowledge to bring forth to the folks that get to sit and listen to him.”

Koughan said that Sport PEI’s next virtual session with Sheppard is scheduled for this Wednesday.