Based on Clyde W FORD, WE CAN ALL GET ALONG: 50 Steps You Can Take to Help End Racism
For Yourself
- Understanding Racism
- Racism
- Racism Evolves
- Avoid using the word 'Race'
- Use Non-Racist Language
- Inventory your Experience with Racism
- Examine your Views about Racism
- Reclaim your Personal History
- Release your Stereotypes of Others
- Release your Stereotypes of Yourself
- Use helpful humor - not hurtful
- Zero Tolerance
- Develop Cross-Cultural Communication Skills
- Invest in Reducing Racism
- Use your PC
- Learn Ethnic-Minority History
- Develop a New Mythology of Black & White
- Develop a Personal Vision of Reducing Racism
- Raise Children with Diverse Beliefs
- Learn what your Children Learn outside the Home
- Create a Family Environment that Embraces Diversity
- Honor the Holidays of Other Ethnicities
- Discover your Family's Ethnic Background
- Find Unity in Spiritual Diversity
- Develop a family vision of reducing racism
- Look Beneath the Surface of your Community
- Understand Institutional Racism
- Determine the Views of Community Leaders
- Evaluate Institutions
- Reduce Racism in Education
- Reduce Racism in Employment
- Reduce Racism in Agriculture
- Reduce Racism in Health Care
- Reduce Racism in Housing
- Reduce Racism in Justice & Law Enforcement
- Utilize the Arts
- Evaluate Different Aspects of your Community
- Create a Celebrate-Diversity Day
- Organize a Civic Event
- Create a Support Group
- Develop a Community Vision of Reducing Racism
- Know your Rights
- Exercise your Right to Vote
- Join a National Organization Working to Reduce Racism
- Let National Leaders know your Views
- Develop a National Vision for Reducing Racism
- Support Global Efforts to Affirm Human Rights
- Healing of Persons, Nations & the World
- Develop a Global Vision for Reducing Racism
- Become a Messenger-of-Hope
To better equip you to take steps to reduce it.
An equal opportunity hazard.
Overt racist behavior has declined, but racist attitudes have not.
'Race' - as commonly used - is more a mythological creation than scientific fact.
Words help shape our ideas & beliefs about others.
What important events shaped your experience of racism?
We cannot choose our skin color but we can choose our beliefs.
What we try to hide about ourselves often gets displaced onto others.
Our stereotypical views of others perpetuate racism, blames the victim and often reflect unresolved issues in our own life.
Stereotypes can become part of one’s self-image.
Humor at the expense of others does little more than reinforce racist stereotypes.
Develop a personal attitude of absolutely no tolerance for racism.
Learn to communicate across cultural & ethnic lines.
Put your money where your beliefs are.
Go online with your efforts to reduce racism.
Learn more about different ethnic groups by learning their history.
Racism survives, in part, because of a cultural mythology about Black & White.
Create a personal vision of what reducing racism means to you.
For Your Family
We always pass along our values & beliefs to our children.
Attitudes & beliefs about race & racism are inherited politically & culturally.
Make your home a model environment for celebrating diversity.
This is a family activity that celebrates diversity.
Only by accepting our own uniqueness can we accept others.
There are many roads to the same spiritual truth.
This should reflect the attitudes & beliefs you would like within your family.
For Your Community
Discover what work there is to do to reduce racism.
Racism without a face.
Interview local leaders regarding racism in your community.
Discover whether the practices of a given organization contribute to reducing racism.
Education can be a basic tool in reducing racism.
Determine how easy it is for those of all ethnic backgrounds to find work in your community.
Agriculture brings together people from different ethnic groups.
The health of a community is reflected in how it cares for the health of its citizens.
Evaluate how adequately the housing needs of all citizens in your community are being met.
Two areas where institutional racism in a community is often most visible.
Evaluate the contribution the arts make to reducing racism in your community.
Any aspect of your community can be evaluated in terms of its impact on reducing racism.
Celebrate diversity and acknowledge the steps taken towards reducing racism in your community.
Implement an idea about reducing racism.
Develop a core group of like-minded individuals within your community.
Create a vision for what reducing racism means for the community you live in.
For Your Nation
National & local laws possess basic safeguards designed to protect citizens from racism.
Ballots can be a powerful too in reducing racism.
Your membership will contribute to ongoing efforts.
Political leaders thrive on the views of their constituency.
Create a vision of the importance of nationally-reducing racism.
For Your World
The most important concern is for one another as individuals, groups & nations.
Reducing racism is entirely linked to other efforts aimed at personal, social & global transformation.
What is the global significance of reducing racism & of honoring diversity?
Share your dreams, visions & ideas about reducing racism and celebrating diversity with someone else.
