Mainstreaming Interethnic
Inclusiveness
Martin Luther King Jr.
28 August 1963
Lincoln Memorial
Washington D.C.
Track record on interethnic
inclusiveness
1.2
1
0.8
Dreams
Implementation
0.6
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
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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:
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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