For one, we can never change attitudes. In hiring practices, and in different approaches in dealing with a diverse community. Often times, several of our systems we'll sit in a pyramid. And I see that happening a lot with our youth in the educational system. I know they're teaching about diversity and how it applies to a person, their own self worth and then reaching out to the community.
Education is important because it demonstrates that people can learn from both entities.
One as an ethnic person in the community, it will give me an opportunity to learn how to access, how to deal with rejection, how to overcome some of those obstacles. It gives me more of an opportunity to learn my coping skills. At the same time, it also helps those instructors, administrators to meet me, as I have to meet them, half way. That it is not just a polarized system here, it is a two-way street and we need to meet each other half way. And in my reality, I deal with a lot of young people, weekends and evening and stuff to address some of their concerns.