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OUR To
Create Understanding and acceptance among different races and cultures, to encourage
open-minded thinking, to target and discuss negative emotions and actions
association with discrimination, to achieve greater cultural awareness, and
to help bring diverse people together in a positive environment. |
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OUR PURPOSE RAP
will hopefully function as a discussion group among the various cultures and
countries represented on the OU campus.
We will speak for our communities.
We will share our separate cultures and support other cultural groups. Within
RAP, no one will have the upper hand; everyone will have an equal voice in
social issues. Together, we can
discuss race relations and racial problems with the outlook of finding a way
to change those negative aspects of race relations. RAP
is a way of establishing communication.
Someone has to open up the lines of communication or we will all be
destined to isolation in a large community.
All
cultures are unique in their traditions, moral code, even ways of
communicating. We are here to
understand and respect, not to change others to be familiar to us. |
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OUR HISTORY The
Racial Awareness Program appeared on OU’s campus in
the 1960’s with the Civil Rights Movement.
The goal was to create a community based on harmony and equal rights
and responsibilities for all citizens.
Though RAP has gone through many internal changes over the decades,
the essence of RAP is the same. |