P-CoC Inc Vision
ABOUT: P-CoC Inc. | Parenting Children of Color, a professional society, and its community social circle groups are dedicated to supporting marginalized individuals at the intersection of race, color, and ethnicity.
MISSION: P-CoC's mission is to create meaningful change by exclusively championing initiatives that promote racial, color, and ethnic equity for persons of color, focusing on fostering ethno-cultural expression, ensuring fair treatment through actionable support, and providing education for all.
GOAL: P-CoC Inc promotes the embrace of a singular human race, graced with unique variations of skin color shades and enriched ethnic uniqueness. We emphasize the belief in a shared humanity, rejecting the idea of inherent racial, color, or ethnic superiority or inferiority.
Values integral to one's ethos are sometimes held in mutual exclusivity to the values of another within their own respective ethos. This is an ontological state of our human interactions, and therefore, attaining societal equity in our pluralistic society will require the act of equitable coexistence with delicate finesse, much like navigating the connection of distinct shapes of unique puzzle pieces to form a tapestry of beautiful interlockings that display the humanness of our shared humanity. -
TENETS OF FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
Explore More Information: P-CoC Inc solely focuses on addressing the distressing pattern of marginalization of minority voices and experiences, particularly those at the bottom rung of society at the intersection of Race (historically associated with "Black" identity), Color (darker skin tones), and Ethnicity (oppressed ancestral heritages). This focus forms the essence of establishing P-CoC’s laser-focused work and its founding principles. P-CoC Inc aims to protect its programming needs to ascertain universal relevance to any space without hostility due to other sociopolitical affiliations. This allows engagement solely dedicated to addressing marginalized intersectional issues related to race, color, and ethnicity. This approach allows for the undiluted evaluation of work and isolated impact that is devoid of links to other sociopolitical platforms and other forms of interest convergence. P-CoC participants may include officials and workers in agencies who are prohibited by law from engaging in socio-political activities. Therefore, P-CoC does not engage in partnership work with any socio-political movement bodies. However, participants of P-CoC Inc. are not bound by the above limitations if their work falls outside the scope of P-CoC Inc.'s engagements. They are free to actively pursue other intersectionality work within and beyond those related to race, color, ethnicity, or socio-political movements, provided it remains outside of P-CoC Inc.'s purview.
DESCRIPTION
Explore More Information: The peacock symbolizes the P-CoC logo. The peacock-the bird with 100 eyes, is a possessor of valued human characteristics, exhibiting signs of sacredness, dignity, leadership, fortification, and vigilance. Not stifling the authentic representation and expressions of persons of color radiates beauty like when a peacock spreads its feathers, revealing intertwined elegance. P-CoC Inc. operates as a collective through established ad hoc committees, collaborating with local social circles to support beneficiaries within the framework exclusively focused on race, color, and ethnicity, particularly among marginalized individuals. We also strive to secure resources to address the academic and economic needs of people of color. P-CoC Inc. is a professional society distinct from a social movement, sociopolitical group, or exclusive self-serving club. Board participants contribute their expertise, resources, intellectual support, and financial backing to serve both internal and external beneficiaries. Individuals within the organization may partake in other forms of intersectionality work outside of race, color, and ethnicity, however, P-CoC, as an organization, does not participate in any other forms of intersectionality work beyond race, color, and ethnicity. P-CoC avoids any form of interest convergence at all costs. The danger with interest convergence is the quick deterioration into a colonialist symbiosis, where an establishment striving towards exclusivity of work is robbed of its focused interest.
COLLEGIATE CODE OF ETHICS
Explore More Information: Commitment to Addressing Race, Color, and Ethnicity: P-CoC's unwavering stance against interest convergence is reflected in its commitment to establishing a dedicated affinity group that exclusively addresses issues of race, color, and ethnicity. This stance arises from the recognition that these forms of inequality are often dismissed as relics of the past or, worse, reduced to token gestures of inclusion. Such gestures, rather than driving meaningful change, tend to reinforce and widen the disparities between marginalized communities and those with more societal privilege. These actions focus on surface-level inclusion, offering symbolic representation without addressing the structural inequalities underpinning marginalized groups' challenges. As a result, they can create the illusion of progress while leaving systemic barriers intact, ultimately deepening the divide between privileged and marginalized communities. Rejection of Tokenism and Superficial Actions: P-CoC actively rejects interest convergence to avoid superficial, performative actions that do nothing to disrupt the root causes of inequality. This commitment is rooted in our dedication to authenticity and substantial change, as we acknowledge the difficulty in securing the broad public and social support needed for lasting transformation. Despite the challenges, we remain resolute in our effort to navigate this paradox, striving to promote real change while resisting quick, tokenistic solutions that fail to create meaningful reform. Navigating Intersectionality and Privilege: A critical element of this dilemma is that marginalized individuals within racial and ethnic groups often lack additional identities of intersectional privilege, which places them at the lowest rungs of the social hierarchy. For instance, individuals who have historically benefited from racial privilege—such as those who are not persons of color—may face additional forms of marginalization (e.g., based on religion, gender, or other federally protected characteristics), but they can still leverage their racial privilege to gain support and influence for issues that affect them. This ability to leverage privilege allows them to secure support from influential allies who relate to their racial privilege, thereby providing them with more leverage to influence outcomes that serve their interests. In contrast, non-persons of color often lack such racial privilege, either systemically or in the form of influential allies who do not share their identities, leaving them without the same means of support or influence. The "Catch-22" Paradox: While avoiding interest convergence helps prevent tokenization and superficial efforts, it also makes it more challenging to secure the broad social support needed to address the complex, deep-rooted issues faced by individuals impacted by race, color, and ethnic marginalization. Moreover, rejecting interest convergence is crucial to eliminate the "savior mentality," which is itself a significant issue. Relying on racial privilege to garner support inadvertently reinforces this savior mentality, which undermines the very work P-CoC aims to accomplish. When the organization bends to accommodate interest convergence, it defeats the core purpose of challenging systemic inequalities. Thus, the catch-22 paradox lies at the heart of P-CoC's formation, as the organization is committed to navigating the delicate balance between rejecting tokenism and working to build the necessary support to create real, lasting change on issues surrounding the exclusive work on race, color, and ethnicity marginalization.
EDUCATION
Providing Teaching Moments
Because Everyone Counts
SUPPORT
Actionable Care
Because No One Should be Overlooked
OUTREACH
Bring in Continous Awareness Ensuring that All Voices are Heard
Behind the Race | Color | Ethnicity Exclusivity Work of P-CoC Inc
Race, Color, and Ethnic intersectional marginalization often lacks the societal leverage to drive change in the same way other forms of marginalization can when they intersect with privilege. The hard truth is that when individuals hold other forms of marginalization, together-with racially privileged intersectional identities, they can use their racial privilege to advance causes tied to their other marginalized identities. This reality is evident in equity-driven work. The efforts that tend to gain the most traction are often those that intersect with identities held by racially privileged individuals, whether ethnic, gender-based, or ability-related. But race-color-ethnic marginalization lacks the privilege-based intersectional leverage to push forward change compared to other forms of marginalization.
Therefore, support P-CoC Inc's mission of advancing societal equity with an unwavering focus on our work, exclusively centered on race, color, and ethnicity. While our identity-based work does not extend beyond these three areas, as they form the foundation of why P-CoC Inc was established, we do, however, support broader initiatives such as academics, resource development, and self-efficacy support.
