Mainstreaming Interethnic

Inclusiveness
Martin Luther King Jr.
28 August 1963
Lincoln Memorial
Washington D.C.
 Track record on interethnic
inclusiveness
1.2

0.8
Dreams
0.6
Implementation
0.4

0.2

0
1776 1863 1963
(Proposed)
 Best practice guidelines for the
inspirational approach to interethnic
inclusiveness
• Mainstreaming Individual Dreams
• Let Freedom Ring (LFR) approach
• Proposed list of musical sources for
inspirational approach
 Geographic implementation of Let
Freedom Ring (LFR) best practices
:
• New Hampshire.
• New York.
• Pennsylvania.
• Colorado.
• California.
• Stone Mountain of Georgia.
• Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
• every hill of Mississippi
Geographic overview of planned
best practice implementation
 Operationalizing best practices
• Nation’s creed should be implemented
more inclusively
• Descendants of former slaves and of
former slave owners should synchronize
sitting at same table
• Primary evaluation criterion for children
should be content of character
Proposed list of musical sources for
inspirational approach :
• National hymns, e.g. “My country ‘tis of
thee”
• Old Negro spirituals: e.g. “Free at last”
 Ethnic groups to which inclusively
mainstreamed
best practices should apply:
• black men
• white men
• Jews
• Gentiles
• Protestants
• Catholics
• all of God's children
 Main points going forward
• Interethnic inclusiveness necessary
condition for national development
• Gap between best practice and
implementation needs to be urgently
addressed
• Coordination among interethnic actors
needs to be improved