The symposium on race relations and social justice in mid-April offered panel presentations, breakout sessions and a keynote address by award-winning social change agent and former senior adviser and vice president of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), Gail C. Christopher. The event, “Dismantling Systems of Racism and Exclusion for a Better I.E.,” was hosted by CSUSB’s University Diversity Committee, in partnership with Westside Action Group. In her speech, Christopher, the visionary for and architect of the WKKF-lead Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) effort for America, focused on the false belief that some people are worth more than others, dismantling biases, and the work of the TRHT. “My message this morning is summarized in three words: we deserve better,” she said. “This region, this nation, this critical time in the evolution of humanity can be summarized in the reality that we deserve better. “Yes, we’ve fought the good fight for many decades; we had a civil war in this country, we had the Civil Rights Movement, we had reconstruction,” she continued. “But how is that we always circle back to the manifestation of a hierarchy of human value? I submit to you that we circle back because we never dealt with it. “I believe that we must jettison the fundamental undergirding fallacy of a belief in a hierarchy of human value,” she said. “And when that has happened, we will truly transform this country.”