(NAME-MCE) To God Tube makes it clear that dark skin is bad

Sat Feb 16 09:53:57 EST 2008

I watched the video.  I am in tears because the visual interpretation of how God loves us, how we stray from God, and how He pulls and fights for us was so well done.  God loves us the same even after the shame.

The performance could have been done by all one race.  The multicultural version could have been done differently.  Be colorblind and look at it through the eyes of a child of God.

If we continue to perpetuate the color divide then it will be so.  If we live life looking for a particular something we will surely find it--everything is out there.  Just as those young people could have been placed in their roles they could have CHOSEN those roles.  The divide goes both ways.  We have to stop it one way and the other.

Please, don't sour the positive message of this video by bringing up alleged negative factors.  That is called being BUSY--Being Under Satan's Yoke.

..As long as you keep your head to the sky...Be optimistic [Sounds of Blackness]

Tina M. Freeman
UIS Psychology Major 
Elementary Ed Minor
Springfield, IL

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   1.  American Indian Inclusion Manual (NativeVillage500 at aol.com)
   2.  2007 TEACHER-TO-TEACHER WORKSHOPS (KispokoT at aol.com)
   3.  Godtube video (Crawford Steve)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:58:54 EST
From: NativeVillage500 at aol.com
Subject: (NAME-MCE) American Indian Inclusion Manual
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 (http://edoptions.com/indianed/) 
American Indian Inclusion Manual
The American Indian Inclusion Manual  was created as a guide for both Indian 
and non-Indian educators seeking to  include the Native American perspective 
in subjects across the curriculum.  
    *    (http://edoptions.com/indianed/American_Indian_Inclusion_Manual.pdf) 
Learn  how to include American Indian concepts and issues across all subjects 

    *   Expand cultural understanding and how to apply these concepts beyond 
the  standard native studies curriculum  
    *   Great educational strategies for both Native and non-Native educators 

    *   This information can be downloaded at: 
_http://edoptions.com/indianed/_ (http://edoptions.com/indianed/) 

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:12:06 EST
From: KispokoT at aol.com
Subject: (NAME-MCE) 2007 TEACHER-TO-TEACHER WORKSHOPS
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2007  TEACHER-TO-TEACHER WORKSHOPS

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:46:25 +0200
From: Crawford Steve <stevecrawford at mac.com>
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Godtube video
To: name-mce at nameorg.org
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Greetings, Teja,

I read with interest your post about the Godtube.com video. My  
comments here focus specifically on this video and not on Godtube.com  
in general because I have no prior experience with this website. I  
hope that you realize that this video was performed in another  
cultural context. This church and its members are located in Turku,  
Finland. You ask if America sees what is "obvious" here. What could  
possibly be so obvious when viewing such a production cross- 
culturally? I agree that in the USA race and ethnicity is often  
portrayed in unfair and stereotypical ways. But these perceptions and  
related lenses do not transfer cross-culturally by assumption. What  
peoples do and think in the USA can have little meaning in another  
culture, or another meaning entirely!

I would not want to speculate about the motives or values of the local  
producers of this skit and I have no idea who wrote the skit or where  
it originated from. I cannot speak directly to the scriptwriters or  
the producers. In short I do not know much about this particular  
phenomenon. For us to preemptively condemn this skit and its actors  
based on our own "American" points of view would of course be  
culturally-centric, and there appears to be no opportunity on this  
forum for a defense by the accused. As a long time resident of Finland  
I have observed Finns (there are always some exceptions) to be  
extremely tolerant and uncritical of others, which I compare favorably  
with my experiences and observations in the USA. We Americans seem  
rather quick to the punch these days and the idea that something could  
be so obvious to Americans as a group I find an odd assumption. I  
would like not to take a reductionist approach in this case, things  
are never so simple as they might seem, and would suggest that the  
accused be allowed to speak on their own behalf. Such a dialogue could  
in fact be quite constructive, and in this manner meaning can be  
negotiated and not imposed by one upon the other.

If you are open to such a dialogue I would be pleased to attempt to  
help arrange this with the producers of this video from this side of  
the chasm.

Sincerely,

Steve Crawford
Jyv?skyl?, Finland

On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:19 PM, name-mce-request at nameorg.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:48:08 -0500
> From: Teja Arboleda <Teja at EntertainingDiversity.com>
> Subject: (NAME-MCE) God Tube makes it clear that dark skin is bad
> To: <name-mce at nameorg.org>
> Message-ID: <C3D89788.AC06%Teja at EntertainingDiversity.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="US-ASCII"
>
> God Tube.com just reminded us that our work is cut out for us. Does  
> America
> see the obvious? This musical interpretive dance of good VS evil is a
> reminder of how entrenched white/black and good/evil interpretations  
> are
> still significant in drama, television, Hollywood, Disney, Broadway  
> and in
> the minds of the young. Take a look:
> http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee73e63418003b47d7d5
>
> --
> There is no box.
>
> Teja Arboleda, M.Ed.
> Entertaining Diversity, Inc.
> PO Box 126, Dedham, MA 02027
> (781) 329-7040
>
> Member: National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
> Member: Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA)
> Member: Filmmakers Collaborative

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