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As our nation becomes more diverse, we need to be able to communicate across racial and ethnic lines, but we seem increasingly less able to do so. ~Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Welcome to the Aren’t We All Equal website. We live in a world where no one person owns the whole truth and where there are often more than two sides to a story. Racism is such a topic. Everyone owns a piece of the truth. Everyone has a story.
To transform our understanding of racism into a more constructive concept requires a fearless search for the truth where the truth is valued over incrimination and retaliation and empathy is valued over sympathy and victimization. We must strive to understand our differences and our similarities, our sufferings and our transgressions.
I hope to aid this transformation process using the blog and the documentary to understand what racism is, who it effects, why it happens, and how it happens.
Racial tension is not unique to Kirkwood, but if we can make a lifestyle change so that we never name another human being as the enemy, but recognize certain institutions and mindsets as the enemy and human beings as the hope, Kirkwood can model how communities can achieve understanding, peace, and solidarity.
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I would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has become a part of this project. Because of you this transformation is possible and a better future is on the horizon.
Thank you all,
~Chris Jeske
