GETTING INVOLVED AT WORK...
It's an interesting question, but an inevitable one asked by people who don't understand the scourge of racism. The answer: hundreds of racist websites reach out to youth, racist records are sold in the thousands, racial youth recruitment at schools by hate groups, the every day subversive racism which thousands of people endure daily, and lastly, in North America, because of yhe racism taught by family and peers, plus the racism that still rings back to the old South, incredibly not yet extinct from our 20th century society.
On a global scale, according to the United Nations, racism is the cause of more than 90% of the wars and crisis worldwide, such as in the former Yugoslavia, and in Ireland, destroying humanity, culture and history in its wake.
Some people don't understand racism because they haven't experienced it...some can transcend their realm of experience and, though they never directly experience racism against their own colour or religion, can empathize with others.
As Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust concentration camp survivor, recently said to a graduating class of university students: "We can always make a difference, if not to the whole world, then to one person. And who is that person? Someone who needs you."
Artists Against Racism was founded not just because it was a 'cool way' to reach out to youth; it exists because the problem is not diminishing in our society, but becoming more hideous in different forms. To remain silent is to remain part of the problem, not part of the solution. We aim to be part of the solution, worldwide. We are all one people. Let's start to care.
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