Want to improve race relations but don't know where to start?
Here are some of the many things you can do to help reduce racism in your personal life and in your community.
And a tune I chose to accompany the post. Simple question. Simple lyrics. "Why Can't We Be Friends?"...
The band (
War) got the idea for this song when they were traveling in Japan in the early '70s. Drummer Harold Brown said, "We're all connected by language, and by our food, and by our culture. Most racists don't know why they're racist. But you pick them up and take them over and drop them in a country, like India or Pakistan, guess what? 'Why can't we be friends?' Because all of a sudden you find out we're more alike inside than we are on the outside. We started realizing that that's really important. You travel all over the world, you can't speak a lot of their language. But one thing they do know, they know your body language, how you may react."