Breaking Bread, Building Bridges

The Des Moines Civil & Human Rights Commission launched the Breaking Bread, Building Bridges initiative to see what happens when people take the time to converse with one another despite their differences.
While these dinner conversations took place before social distancing was necessary, we can learn from these experiences to help us better connect with our neighbors around us.
Learn more at HumanRightsDSM.org/
The Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Commission was selected as the 2020 Governor’s Emmy® Award Recipient by the Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for their documentary Breaking Bread, Building Bridges. Learn more: DSM.city/news_detail_T2_R262.php

[@tyronzo]

We need these conversations in public schools - K-12 again and again - more in depth grade to grade. And more in depth in college!

[@templario10]

Wonderful documentary. It instils hope in a time not only the United States, but the whole world, need it.

[@iowacluster7bahaicommunity158]

Wonderful mission and actions taken to unite the beautiful diverse community of Des Moines.

[@iowacluster7bahaicommunity158]

We would love to join you in this Breaking Bread, Building Bridges efforts to build community and get to know our neighbors and really connect.||
May we share a few quotations from the Baha'i perspective on these subjects covered in the video above:
“Ye are all fruits of one tree, the leaves of one branch, the flowers of one garden.” That is one of the most characteristic sayings of Bahá’u’lláh, and another is like it: “Glory is not his who loves his own country, but glory is his who loves his kind.” Unity-unity of mankind, and of all created beings in God-is the main theme of His teaching.
"Let the white make a supreme effort...to abandon once for all their usually inherent and at times subconscious sense of superiority, to correct their tendency towards revealing a patronizing attitude towards the members of the other race, to persuade them through their intimate, spontaneous and informal association with them of the genuineness of their friendship and the sincerity of their intentions, and to master their impatience of any lack of responsiveness on the part of a people who have received, for so long a period, such grievous and slow-healing wounds. Let the Negroes, through a corresponding effort on their part, show by every means in their power the warmth of their response, their readiness to forget the past, and their ability to wipe out every trace of suspicion that may still linger in their hearts and minds." Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice

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[@randyw9266]

Wow, this is excellent; I wish every community could do it? I'm going to f/u in my community and see if we can do this. Thanks!

[@randyw9266]

Remove the question mark from my comment.