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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.
“Black” performed by Dave, LIVE at the Brits 2020.
Soul-pouring poetry about the black experience.
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.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
The "Late Late Show" host breaks down in tears during a heartfelt convo with friend and comedian Reggie Watts. Take a look.
Known for her “blue-eyed, brown-eyed” experiment, where she ran her class as though the children with brown eyes were superior to children with blue eyes, educator Jane Elliott has spent the last 50 years fighting racism.
How would you feel if you were treated differently simply based on the color of your skin? Jane Elliott gave 'The Oprah Show' audience members a chance to experience racism firsthand when she divided them into two groups: those who have blue eyes and those with brown eyes. The blue-eyes group was discriminated against while the people with brown eyes were catered to.
One of FRONTLINE's most requested programs -Jane Elliott's interactive lesson in discrimination.
Quilt of Humanity, performed by Yonatan Razel and Avraham Tal.
רקמה אנושית אחת // יונתן רזאל ואברהם טל
"שירים בכיכר" 2015 בהפקת עירית תל אביב יפו
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...