Transformations with Dianne Shaver and her guest Cleo Brown, ON AIR FROM MARCH 26TH
Purpose of my talks & my writing: Using history to create insight and introspection that leads to change. My primary focus areas are race relations and voting.
What needs to change to make this a more equitable culture, especially in the South in the United States? This hugely impacts Charleston, South Carolina as the first port of entry for slaves taken from Africa. Many have said that the healing must take place in Charleston for that very reason. How can we wake people up to prejudicial laws and cultural norms that exclude African Americans or view them as less than which is woven into the very fabric of the culture.
Things have been heating up in the United States in the last couple of years in the area of race relations and in the 2020 election, it will have a huge impact. There are many candidates of color declaring for the Democratic presidential nomination.
This interview with Cleo Brown highlights ways that the white culture still views non-whites and ways that we can make needed changes. She sees education as one of the first things that have to happen.
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Among her recommendations are movies, books and news sources: Cleo would recommend that everyone definitely watch the movie “Selma” and the Documentary “Eyes on the Prize”.
I would recommend: My book, “Witness to the Truth”, not because it is my book but because it works because people say that it makes them understand today much better (see a few reader comments attached). The story is not only laid out logically so that the reader can clearly understand how one incident in history is tied to the next period in history but because there is the main character, it feels more like you are just reading a good story and you learn valuable lessons quite by accident. It explains not only what happened, but often why something happens.
Other books I’d recommend would be Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody & The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. I would also recommend using NPR for your news source in order to hear reporting that gives depth and a more balanced coverage by presenting different views.
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Is my pain any worse than yours? Who knows, it comes down not to how much pain but how we overcome the pain. It is not my owey hurts more than yours but how to find the strength and direction to go through it and lead a productive life because of it. We can do it and must do it in order not to be a victim for the rest of our lives.
We are inclined in our nervousness not to talk about it; we are embarrassed, fearful or just cannot cope with it all. Just like death, we need to talk about it, to speak of what happened takes away the magnitude of it, desensitize the act, not the person. Once the person who has been victimized feels comfortable with speaking about it, it takes the shame and the dirtiness away from it, putting the damming onto the victimizer, not the victim. We have to face it, deal with it, not feel shame over it and we have to overcome it. It takes time love understanding and the power of valuing the victimized person.
I could not go back to what I was or I would become a victim again. I had to be stronger, surer and in tune with my spirit soul and mind in order for my heart to beat with the sounds of life again. I had to block out all and anyone how stole my energy or who lived in negativity. I had to take journeys in to find my soul and not be affected by the bombardment of negative shattering going on around me. People do not like change especially if you are changing for the better. They do not like it because you remind them of their misery and the fact they do not want to or do not have the courage to make the choices to change their lives for the better.
I like watching people and life around me, I like dipping in when I feel like it. I like stepping back and observing life from out of the circle. I like my own company and no longer I am I running from my self.
Lynnis Woods-Mullins, CHC,CPI,CLC is founder and CEO of PraiseWorks Health and Wellness and Wellness Woman 40. At the age of 51 Lynnis decided that after twenty-five years in the field of Human Resources as a professional and Manager it was time to make a change. In 2009, Lynnis made a decision to pursue her true calling which is a holistic education, “I wanted to pursue my true calling of educating women on how to achieve total wellness of the mind, body and spirit through holistic practices and fitness”
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