Setting up the meat of her lecture, Combs prefaced it by quoting feminist author Bell Hooks, saying “‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ [is] the power structure underlying the social order” [but] “it is sometimes necessary to focus singularly on race.”

Included in the 12-steps are the headings:

1. “We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy.”
2. “We came to believe that we could embrace our ignorance as an invitation to learn.”
3. “We develop support systems to keep us engaged in this work.”
4. “We journeyed boldly inward, exploring and acknowledging ways in which white supremacist teachings have been integrated into our minds and spirits.”
5. “We confessed our mistakes and failings to ourselves and others.”
6. We were entirely ready to deconstruct previous ways of knowing, as they have been developed through the lens of white supremacy.”
7. We humbly explored new ways of understanding…proactively seeking out new learning and reconstructing a more inclusive sense of reality.”
8. “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”
9. “We develop strategies to counteract our racial biases.”
10. “We embraced the responsibility of focusing on our impact, more than our intentions, in interactions with people of color.”
11. “We engage in daily practices of self-reflection.”
12. “We committed ourselves to sharing this message with our white brothers, sisters, and siblings…in order to build a supportive recovery community and to encourage personal accountability within our culture.”