generations

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If It’s All Foreign to Me, I Simply Ask Questions

By Berni Xiong ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

A few weeks ago I was devastated to learn I was unable to attend the Annual Block Party hosted by TRUE Skool, a youth advocacy group that promotes hip-hop art and culture as a means of creative expression and educational development. My 16-year-old son and I were psyched to go having known about it for [...]

TJ Leyden: former racist skinhead now author and Peace activist—Part I

By Arno Michaels ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Not too long ago, I had the honor of engaging in a 2 ½-hour conversation with a man I consider a hero: TJ Leyden. TJ left the white power movement during the mid-nineties as I did, after spending many years recruiting kids to become violent racists. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for [...]

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator

By Arno Michaels ⋅ May 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“I view some of what’s going on in the political arena, this roller-coaster going back and forth, as just a natural process of cultural change happening. It’s not all going to happen in a neat all-at-once kind of way. It’s going to go this way and then that way and forward and backward, and then lurch left and right.”

Black History Month

By Arno Michaels ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We need to study the history of our country from everyone’s perspective –especially those who were denied access and inclusion for centuries. Until we as Americans reconcile the bad along with the good of our history, we won’t be able to truly understand where we are and how we got here. And how the hell are we to make progress if we don’t know where and who we are as a Nation?

why

By Arno Michaels ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

(chapter 2 of 11 in “My Life After Hate”) Why Life After Hate? To help people learn to set aside their prejudices and get to know each other. Being a bigger guy with a lot of tattoos, I face more prejudice than most white people do. I realize that I’m a bit of an eyesore, [...]

Sammy Rangel “FOURBEARS: Myths of Forgiveness”

FourBears: The Myth of Forgiveness: isn't a simple memoir; it is a graphically illustrated guide from tortured child, to remorseless beast, to healing and change. This book is about helping others find their way out of their history and into the here and now. Proof that what once held you down can now hold you up. After the book reflects on a horrific upbringing it looks to offer key and ground breaking insights of the inner workings of the mind of a victim and later a perpetrator of hate and violence. Service providers working in treatment centers and institutional settings would greatly benefit from this work. Anyone facing issues with forgiveness and change might find a process toward healing and recovery.