Moving past local racism

AUBURN - If racism is Auburn's festering wound, a group of community stakeholders and members said Monday that it's no longer acceptable to just adhere a Band-Aid.

Rather than just talk about racism and its entrenchment in local spheres, numerous people from the various sections of the Auburn community assembled at the Holiday Inn to discuss tangible ways to move past it.

The “Moving Past Racism” community forum, organized by the Auburn Enlarged City School District, Auburn/Cayuga NAACP, Cayuga Community College, Change International and the New York Institute of Dance and Education, brought together individuals from government and education, community advocates and Auburn residents who would rather create change than sit idly by as racism continues to exist in their neighborhoods.