Came across an interesting website called, "37 Days: Stop Doing Insignificant Work in the World"

Here's the link, and here is a snippet of the mantra:

http://37days.typepad.com/37days/2008/02/stop-hate.html

Why have we made a silent, unspoken agreement to not do significant work in the world?

I am tired of having long, endless, polite conversations about discrimination and hate. I am tired of executives who keep asking me for the "business case" for diversity as if another notebook of statistics will finally make them pay attention like the other 120 notebooks of data have not. I am tired of going to meetings to hear about the state of our communities relative to race or other diversity issues only to hear talking heads present illegible PowerPoint bar charts about disparities in graduation rates between blacks and whites.

Good lord, don't we know all this already? Raise your hand if you are white and straight and would volunteer for the rest of your life to be treated as people of color and GLBTQ people are treated in this country. If your hand isn't raised, then you know we have to do something about the discrimination GLBTQ people and people of color--and others--face DAILY. If your hand isn't raised, then you know this is going on and you cannot pretend not to know any longer.

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1. Show this young man's family you care by signing the guestbook on the site erected to remember Larry.

2. If you are a parent, buy books that demonstrate that diversity is beautiful. Read them to your children. Then read them again.

3. Devote a year to getting to know someone who scares you.

4. Read magazines that reflect interests and realities that are not your own. Go to a newsstand. What's a magazine you would never read? That's the one to buy and read, cover to cover. Next week, pick another one.

5. Walk toward people you perceive to be different from you, not away from them.

6. Every week, ask and really listen to someone's story. Where did they grow up? What are their best memories of their childhood? Find out what you have in common beyond the ways you are different.

7. Mentor a child.

8. When you hear a gay joke, or a black joke, or any other kind of demeaning humor in a film or TV show, write the producers. Let them know it's not alright.

9. Be an advocate for someone.

10. Pay attention to the subtle ways in which we tell people "you're not normal."

...and ten other things listed on the website. There is probably a better place for this somewhere else on the DFW BI site, so feel free to cut and paste.

Hopefully will get to see many of you tonight.