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   %MINORITY RIGHT REST RELAX SLEEP RECREATE HEALTH 910703

For  a community to enjoy integrity and health it needs to
assure all of its members the rights to timely relaxation,
rest, sleep and recreation.

If  members of a community feel that they must perpetually
be  on  guard and defensive,  they will always  be  tense,
under  strain,  ill-at-ease and so dis-eased;  sick.   The
above  rights of citizens are essential to communal  well-
being  and health.  The community which does not assure in
reasonable  ways  the above rights will  be  diseased  and
disintegrate.

Minority  members  of a community are often made  to  feel
perpetually on guard and defensive because of their: race,
ethnic origin,  religion, culture, language,  sex,  sexual
orientation, beliefs, etc. Often communities do not assure
the minority members of the community the above rights  to
timely  relaxation,  rest,  sleep and  recreation.   Often
minority  members  of  communities  feel  that  they  must
perpetually  be on guard and defensive against attacks  by
violent  representatives of the majority members  who  are
embarrassed by the presence of the minority members.

Majority  members of many communities are  embarrassed  by
the  presence of descendants of slaves of the ancestors of
the  majority  members.  Majority members  have  inherited
guilt  and  are  embarrassed by the presence  of  minority
members who  remind  them of unresolved historic conflicts
over:   values,   ideals,  religion,   rituals,   culture,
language, sexuality, politics and related issues.

The  presence of members of memorable minority groups  are
not a real threat to the members of the majority;  yet the
members of the majority may resent the embarrassment which
they  feel  due  to the presence of  the  members  of  the
minority groups.  The majority may hold the members of the
minorities responsible for the embarrassment which they of
the majority feel; and so the majority members deprive the
minority members of the right to timely relaxation,  rest,
sleep  and recreation.  In consequence the members of  the
minorities are always tense, under strain, ill-at-ease and
so dis-eased;  sick. Their illnesses are contagious and so
undermine  the  well-being of community as a  whole,   and
deprive it of wholeness, integrity.

For  a community to enjoy integrity and health it needs to
assure all of its members the right to timely  relaxation,
rest,  sleep and recreation; without falling into the trap
of  perpetually rescuing dishonest addicts who  refuse  to
make  an  honest effort to be contributing members of  the
community.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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