To be honest onetime, I don't know if that's something that can be taught. I think it mostly comes from personal experience.
If parents teach their kids to love their neighbor as you love themselves, it's a good place to start. If parents teach kids about anger management, tolerance, and forgiveness, they're ahead of the game.
Personally, it took going to an integrated school and making friends with people of many races to learn to channel that anger into something more positive. I can't lie -- the anger still exists sometimes -- and I'm sitting here as a black woman who is a member of an NPC sorority. But as soon as I learned to look as people as individuals not as a collective, what anger I was holding on to dissipated over time.
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Last edited by Sistermadly; 04-02-2004 at 05:02 AM.
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