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God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth [The Help].
Lately, I’ve watched films that portray the human condition under duress. One of these is an Oscar nominated movie entitled “The Help,” in which maids (living in the deep South) decided to invoke change. They contributed their personal stories to a book that illuminated their condition as oppressed, exploited, degraded, and abused. Turn the page…
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“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
From The Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, March 6, 1960 Turn the page…
Jackie Gilbert is a Professor of Management in the Middle Tennessee State University College of Business.
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