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[Sooner]

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@Maudelyn wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Lila Belle wrote:

Oh, my. I hope that you are watching this on CNN. I really hope they repeat this. It's about girls and education in Africa and of course throughout the world.

As women we need to be reminded of of our strength  and power to invoke  change.

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I think the most impowering thing that women can do is stop thinking "as women" but as people who have power and strength.  I think the sooner we get over our differences of gender, race, or nationality as see one another as individuals and not divisive groups, change will come fast for the world. 

We all have power to invoke change--in ourselves. 

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I think the sooner we understand and acknowledge our differences of gender, race and nationality and the uneven playing field existing as a result, the faster change will come for the world. Denial doesn't empower.  Quite the opposite.

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The playing field in life is never even.  In this country you can be successful or not.  It isn't about the playing field any more, it is about the plalyers.  As individuals.  Not everyone makes it a success in life.  But everyone in this country can do so if they choose to and will do what it takes.  But ALL of are not treated fairly all of the time.  As individuals.  People hate on rich people all the time, fat people, people with funny accents, etc. etc.  It happens. And ignorant people hate on peole who are NOT like them-whoever they are.  It happens doesn't it? 

[Maudelyn]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Maudelyn wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Lila Belle wrote:

Oh, my. I hope that you are watching this on CNN. I really hope they repeat this. It's about girls and education in Africa and of course throughout the world.

As women we need to be reminded of of our strength  and power to invoke  change.

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I think the most impowering thing that women can do is stop thinking "as women" but as people who have power and strength.  I think the sooner we get over our differences of gender, race, or nationality as see one another as individuals and not divisive groups, change will come fast for the world. 

We all have power to invoke change--in ourselves. 

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I think the sooner we understand and acknowledge our differences of gender, race and nationality and the uneven playing field existing as a result, the faster change will come for the world. Denial doesn't empower.  Quite the opposite.

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The playing field in life is never even.  In this country you can be successful or not.  It isn't about the playing field any more, it is about the plalyers.  As individuals.  Not everyone makes it a success in life.  But everyone in this country can do so if they choose to and will do what it takes.  But ALL of are not treated fairly all of the time.  As individuals.  People hate on rich people all the time, fat people, people with funny accents, etc. etc.  It happens. And ignorant people hate on peole who are NOT like them-whoever they are.  It happens doesn't it? 

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If only success came as easily as described here. Using this logic, the poor are poor because they choose to be and don't have the will to "do what it takes" (whatever that means).

[Puzzle Piece]

Didn't watch the show.  I only give and donate to American causes here in the USA. 

[SilleeMee]

Neighbor family of mine are African immigrants. I asked the single mother, head of household, why she came here. She told me it was for her children to get an education and that in her homeland women in particular are never given the opportunity to get educated. In fact, she told me that it is condemned by most of the people from her area. She told me she never saw a classroom in her entire life growing up in Africa. She once asked me if I had any "schooling" and I told her I graduated from college. She responded by telling how very, very lucky and fortunate I am to have such a grand opportunity as this. I smiled and gave her a big hug.

[Greeneyedlady21]

Excellent show, I watched it the first time it was on a few months ago. 

[suzyQ3]

Thank you so much for posting this, @Lila Belle.

I take exception to two oft-heard themes here:

1) The idea that there is not and never will be a level playing field but that somehow EVERYONE can rise if they really just want to badly enough.

This put the onus entirely on the individual, who might have not been born into a promising environment, who might be of an origin that has fought bias and discrimination for eons, and who might have missed a bit of luck along the way.

Yet this person, if he really wanted to, should just pull himself up by his bootstraps without a helping hand because, after all, his counterpart who did have the promising environment, did not face ugly hatred, and who had good luck made it just fine.

2) The idea that we should help only within the U.S. This flies in the face of morality and practicality. We are citizens of the world, whether we like it or not. We have moral duty to do what we can to help ease the undescribable misery that very few of us here in America have ever seen. On the practical side, the more educated, prosperous, and healthy people are in other countries, the less likely we are to see strife, repression, and less vulnerability to dangerous groups.

To that end, I highly recommend Friends of UNFPA, a foundation to which we have donated monthly for several years now. It supports UNFPA, which was founded in 1969 to promote women's health in more than 50 countries. What so many of these women endure is unfathomable to us in the U.S.

[YorkieonmyPillow]

@suzyQ3I couldn't disagree more.......