Copper to Gold is a program for personal transformation based on the principle of the oneness of humanity.

Interracial relationships start with understanding how our behavior can reflect unconscious attitudes of superiority which impact the formation of genuine friendships. Copper to Gold brings these behaviors to light and offers ways to overcome them.

  • The program is rooted in the Bahá’í Writings

  • The 19 behaviors are studied in 2 hour sessions over 16 weeks in a closed group

  • Copper to Gold uses multimedia, current research on racism, and questions for consultation and reflection

Demonstrations of Unconscious Superiority 

Whiteness and White Privilege

Racial Gaslighting

Avoiding Conversations About Race

Intention vs. Impact

Whitesplaining

Othering 

Saming

Colonizer Mentality/White Saviorism/Appropriation

Apathy, Lethargy, Passivity, Complacency

Asking to be Educated by a Black Person

Moral Licensing/Performative Allyship

Friending

We examine how…  

Racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. It deprives a portion of humanity of the opportunity to cultivate and express the full range of their capability and to live a meaningful and flourishing life, while blighting the progress of the rest of humankind.  It cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as “other”. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual.

- Universal House of Justice, from a letter dated 22 July, 2020