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Want Better Race Relations? Commitment Required
August 12, 2011, 2:58 pm
Filed under: Race Relations Commitment

How are all you Daughters of Earth doing, close to one week post gathering?

As one of the Rainbow Temple facilitators, I had an insight/idea/suggestion.  Last year, Alisa helped us prepare for a shift in our relationship to our money and our beliefs about abundance. She suggested that all women prepare for the next DOE by saving the money that we would need to attend ALL YEAR LONG, so we could not say” I don’t have enough” one month before the gathering.

I am suggesting that we prepare for next year by using “film therapy” with respect to issues of race, ethnicity, class, and body image.

What a concept!  At my Facebook “Temple of the Healthy Spirit” fanpage, I will be posting links to films, trailers to films, and you-tube clips relevant to films to help us think about these topics with some depth. I will also create a category for this topic, at my website; let’s call it the RRC (race relations commitment) category.

Why this topic and why now? Because London is going up in smoke, as I am writing this on August 12 and we have the same issues to address on this side of the Atlantic.

So let us begin. Start simple. This weekend, a new film is out, called “The Help” (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYmhc8Xk8g) Get yourself to the movie. Better yet, take a friend. Best of all, take a friend from a different ethnic/class/ or racial group.

And, if you haven’t GOT a friend who “qualifies”, then that’s a real opportunity for self examination, isn’t it?

 

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We will most likely have a discussion about all of this the LAST WEEK of August, and (unless I hear from folks differently) we will use Facebook, at The Temple of The Healthy Spirit fanpage.

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