Honor the difficulty

Asheville is my home. My husband and I are raising two daughters here. I want them to grow up in a richly diverse and inclusive community.

My vision is for Asheville to be a model community for diversity and inclusion.

Let's start a constructive dialogue about difference that will help us get there. As ABC News correspondent Michel Martin said at Asheville's 2005 MLK Prayer Breakfast (15 Jan 2005):

• Let's challenge ourselves to reclaim King's vision
• Let's not pretend that it's easy when we know that it's hard
• Let's honor the difficulty of these issues by acknowledging how hard it is.

And let's get started.

I created this space as a place to gather useful information, tools and resources for use by people in Asheville and Western North Carolina (and other communities) to help achieve that vision. I hope it's helpful.

Please send news items, announcements, and other information related to diversity and inclusion in our community for inclusion in this website.

Comments

[Harry]

There is no way that Ashville be allowed to turn into a progressive...San Francisco like town. No way no how...and I will do anything I can to stop the Californication of MY community.

[pattidigh]

Harry - thanks for your comment - and for visiting Inclusive Asheville. Given your viewpoint, I'm not sure if this site will be of ongoing interest to you, but you are welcome to visit. I don't know what you mean by "San Francisco like town," actually, but in my experience, those kinds of blanket statements about a place (or a people) are more harmful than useful.