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ethnicity of themselves; they want
to gather around that common
factor of color to feel a sense of
relaxation. They have had enough
tension being in a broader society
that is often prejudiced against
them. So we give them that.”
He meant it literally. Smith
and the board of SIMS list Sala’s
people of color introductory class
in their pamphlets and pay the
rent for the church room it uses
each week. “The point of dharma
is to add a point of consciousness
to the society, it doesn’t do any
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good for just a group of people in
Seattle or New York to do this, the
point is to make the culture as a
whole more conscious,” he said.
“And we began to think: Are there
ways we are excluding peopl