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As a woman who grew up in Glendale, outside of Cincinnati, I am with thousands of others who are horrified by the killing of young Timothy Thomas, who was unarmed, by a white police officer -- the 15th African-American man who has been shot to death or died during police arrests since 1995. I want your readers to know the cause of racism has been explained -- and it can end! Eli Siegel, the American educator and founder of Aesthetic Realism, showed that all prejudice and racism arise from contempt, which he defined as: "the addition to self through the lessening of something else." Contempt is ordinary -- it makes for everyday sarcasm and meanness -- and it also makes one person feel he has the right to shoot another simply because that person's skin color is different. I regret my own family had the contemptuous notion that being white made us superior to persons with darker skin -- how hideously wrong we were! Humanity will not be civilized until the contempt that begins quietly in every person is seen for what it is and criticized straight - as I'm grateful to say mine was -- and people learn to see the difference of others as truly adding to them, making them more. That is why it is an emergency for all people, including government officials, to study Aesthetic Realism. I know that people both want to change and are afraid to. I earnestly want every reader of this article not to be afraid! Studying Aesthetic Realism is the best time you can ever have. It is what you have been hoping for. Its principles enable you honestly to like yourself. This past March at the national conference of the Campus Outreach Opportunity League at Harvard, four speakers gave a powerful workshop titled "Where Does Racism Begin in the Self of Everyone -- and How It Can End!" They presented the one practical answer, which is described by Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism:  
Nancy Huntting, a consultant on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, is a graduate of Princeton High School, Springfield, Ohio, and Denison University, Granville, Ohio. This article has also been published in the Columbus Post (Columbus, Ohio), Cleveland Call & Post (Cleveland, Ohio), Dayton Weekly News (Dayton, Ohio), Milwaukee Times (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Mobile Beacon (Mobile, Alabama) |
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