Monday, November 8, 2010

UNENDING QUEST-WAYS TO ONENESS

excerpt from @RACE UNITY. COM (see Aug 31, 2010)

In response to the question "what can I do?" 11-24-97

We can -

1. have an unending quest for filling in the gaps of our educational system and learn the heroes and heroines, the martyrs and saints, the ordinary hard-working people, the inventors, discoverers, leaders, artists of the non-caucasian,  non-Europes (it is not in our history books).

2. learn the history of slavery, the indoctrination of a whole country into the erroneouse belief that there is justification treating a fellow human being with contempt, like a farm animal, like an object without feelings, without the  basic needs of a family - safety, a right to practice one's religious beliefs, to learn, to educate oneself or have the opportunity to get educated.

3. learn the history of the media and it's distortion of faces, body shapes, motives and capabilities of those who did  not happen to be white..

4. learn that the look that is different comes from adaptation to climate for survival centuries ago and has nothing whatsoever to do with values or capabilities of being human.

5.  play with, learn with, live with, love with, mate with, bear children with, pray with, cry with, laugh with consciously, deliberately, and ceaselessly those who look different from you.

6.   pray to have the "poison in the cookies"  (subtle contamination as a child) fed to us as children removed from our hearts.

7. never let a joke that demeans another go by, without a challenge.

8. always make the play group that you put your children in diverse so that that is normal and a one color group is abnormal.

9. listen to the music and stories of as many diverse ethnic groups as you possibly can with thoughtfulness and appreciation.

10. make your housing choice illustrate and practice that all are one, that good neighbors come in all colors.

11. be genuine in your friendships and humble in your attitudes.

12. basically to look into each other's eyes and see the heart.

Love in the struggle,

Anne

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