{"id":19,"date":"2012-01-25T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-01-26T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:59:55","slug":"bridge-the-racial-divide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Bridge the Racial Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Help America Bridge the Racial Divide” is an excellent source of ideas for addressing racial prejudice in any community. It also demonstrates that through perseverance and sincere effort, the greatest challenge our world faces today can be overcome. Over the course of this 28-minute video, various members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed community tell of their experiences in the difficult work of establishing unity among the races. <\/span><\/p>\n
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The Power of Race Unity<\/strong>
\n<\/span> Help America Bridge the Racial Divide<\/strong> <\/span><\/center>
\nHelp America Bridge the Racial Divide<\/strong> is a 28-minute video that tells of various members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed community and their experiences in the difficult work of establishing unity among the races. \u00a0 It highlights members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed Faith – who regard the unity of the entire human race as one of its most basic beliefs – as they work to eliminate racial prejudice and reconcile differences between those of varying racial and ethnic backgrounds in the United States.<\/p>\n

This video is an excellent source of ideas for addressing racial prejudice in any community. \u00a0 It also demonstrates that through perseverance and sincere effort, the greatest challenge our world faces today can be overcome.<\/p>\n

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Help America Bridge the Racial Divide<\/strong> was first broadcast in April of 1998, on the Odyssey<\/em> cable channel. \u00a0 Following the success of this broadcast, it was again broadcast on BETv<\/em> in June. \u00a0 From the BETv<\/em> broadcast alone, more than 12,000 people called to receive information or contact Bah\u00e1’\u00ed communities in their local area. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n This video is available from your local Bah\u00e1\u00ed Community librarian or the National Teaching Office of the U.S. Bah\u00e1’\u00ed National Center. \u00a0 Further information is available by calling 1-800-22-UNITE<\/strong>. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The Power of Race Unity<\/strong> “Help America Bridge the Racial Divide” presents the experiences of members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed communities in the difficult work of establishing unity among diverse peoples. \u00a0 It highlights members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed Faith, who regard the unity of the entire human race as one of its most basic beliefs. \u00a0 This video is intended to serve as a catalyst for intimate discussions of race unity among all people.<\/p>\n

This video powerfully presents the diversity of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed community, introducing several of its members who are from many different racial and national backgrounds. \u00a0 It shows their struggle and describes decades of work in race unity and the elimination of prejudice of all kinds.<\/p>\n

In the video, country singer Dan Seals notes that most of country music is white and mostly Christian. \u00a0 He uses his professional music videos to talk about the beliefs which he holds dear, like the elimination of prejudice, and he shows a diversity that is unique to country music.<\/p>\n

Another segment features fourteen-year old Anisa Kintz from Conway, South Carolina, who organized a series of national children’s conferences on race unity entitled Calling All Colors<\/em>. \u00a0 Anisa says, “My vision of race unity is when kids can go to school and look across the lunchroom and won’t see a black table on this side and a white table on that side. \u00a0 Race unity is really a kids’ issue.”
\nAfter the success of Calling All Colors<\/em>, many school districts around the nation have inquired into setting up their own such programs.<\/p>\n

Also featured are the 32 Bah\u00e1’\u00ed Youth Workshops performing across America. \u00a0 The members are kids, not professional dancers or actors, who come together to perform dances and songs about race unity in their communities. \u00a0 They talk about everyday challenges for all youth and how to solve those challenges in a spiritual forum.<\/p>\n

The final segment highlights University of Michigan Professor Richard Thomas as he conducts a university-wide discussion program to teach acceptance of diversity to college faculty and students. \u00a0 One student says, “Before the conversations I found myself really irritated with other races because I thought they were just so different from me that we couldn’t relate, but after talking to one another I realized that that’s not true. I realized that we’re all just people.”
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Contact the National Teaching Office of the U.S. Bah\u00e1’\u00ed National Center
\n1-800-22-UNITE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Help America Bridge the Racial Divide” is an excellent source of ideas for addressing racial prejudice in any community. It also demonstrates that through perseverance and sincere effort, the greatest challenge our world faces today can be overcome. Over the course of this 28-minute video, various members of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed community tell of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bahai-springfieldmo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}