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We collected a few poems, songs and videos to offer you some of the most valuable lessons (must see Jane Elliot below) to get smarter and sensitized to discrimination and racism - both it’s explicit and implicit forms.
This is a transformative window into the experience, and shed light on what you can do to change it for the people, community, country and world around you.
It starts with you.
It starts now.
Does not equal
poem by Uri Schneider
image by Alex from The Noun Project
To listen.
Does not equal.
To be silent.
To be speechless.
Does not equal.
To be mindless.
What happens out there.
Does not equal.
What we feel inside.
Yesterday.
Does not equal.
Tomorrow.
I am I.
Does not equal.
You are you.
To listen for truth.
Can equal.
To speak truth.
Quiet small steps.
Can equal.
Life-changing paths.
To re-form the same letters "s-i-l-e-n-t."
Can equal.
To l-i-s-t-e-n.
To listen.
Can equal.
To act.
For me to choose boldly.
Can equal.
For us to come (back) together.
Lyrics: Quilt of Humanity
Written and composed by Chava Alberstein
When I shall die,
something of mine, something of mine
will die in you, will die in you.
When you'll die,
something of yours, something of yours in me
will die with you, will die with you.
Because all of us, yes all of us
are all one living human tissue
and if one of us
goes from us
something dies in us -
and something, stays with him
If we'll know, how to comfort, how to comfort
the hostility, if only we'd know.
If we'll know, how to quiet our rage
(if we'd know how to quiet)
upon the fury of our humiliation, to say sorry.
If we'd know how to start from the beginning.
Because all of us...