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This post is a human interest issue.   How do you look at someone that looks different than you!

I have been reading a very thoughtful book, Outcasts United by a very young writer Warren St. John, a reporter for The New York Times.

He writes about a group of young kids that have come to live in America as refugees from all the war torn nations of Africa, Asia and Europe and how one woman saw a way to unite these kids with a game of soccer.

What the towns folks of this conservative small town of Clarkston, Georgia, just outside of the Atlanta saw and felt when hundreds of refugee families came to live in their town and transformed the town.  What they saw were not white faces but faces of color, clothes that were different, languages they never heard, foods that they did not know.

What barriers did the town’s folks try to implement, the police arrests, the mayor’s wishy -washy agenda?

How did this one Jordanian woman unite these boys against all odds to develop a winning soccer team?

What do you feel and understand if you see someone that looks different from you?

Do you have preconceived ideas?  Prejudices? Compassion?

Michael Jackson sang about it: Look at the man in the mirror!

This book is a lesson in learning.  I highly recommend it.

rebecca

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