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einterpreting the old and discriminative stories to empower
people of all ages, ethnicities, races, genders, classes, and nations.
4. Governments, NGOs, the private sector and their institutions,
can and must use their positions of power to promote the
human rights of all. They can do this by ensuring that stories that
legitimate racism and gender discrimination are illegal and through
educating their human resources to promote and respect the
human rights of its citizens and all people who live in their states.
With some of these strategies put in place, we can begin to spin
and consume stories and interpretation of stories that respect and
celebrate our diversity as women and men, as black, white and
yellow people; as people of different sexual orientations, ages,
ethnicities, dis/abilities, nations, regions, religions and classes,
without ever reducing the humanity of any people or any form of
life to exploitation and marginalization. Power is in our hands to
shape a just world for ourselves as members of the earth. As for
religious people and their stories, they must begin by asserting
that all forms of life and people are sacred. The time is now.
Dr. Musa W. Dube is a Theology and Religious Studies
lecturer at the University of Botswana
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