RaceBridges Studios is an amazing project run by Susan O'Halloran, devoted to using storytelling to build bridges across divides of race, culture, religion, sexuality, and more. They offer a wide array of stories and other free materials to teach diversity. This is storytelling making a real difference in how people interact. Susan is saving the world, story by story.
It has been my honor to contribute two stories to RaceBridges. This is the second.
When I was 13, I visited friends who lived in rural North Carolina. I arrived full of northern urban misconceptions about the people who lived in Appalachia, and encountered some misconceptions from them about people like me. I was fortunate; I was able to learn from the experience and I hope they were, too.
You can find a variety of teaching materials to use with this story at the RaceBridges site. I hope you find this story interesting and maybe just a little bit useful.
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(c)2018 Laura S. Packer
Wow. You are so amazing. Even your 13 year old self! May we all be this alive and open, intuitive and accepting.
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