The event is for a day, but its theme is daily, timeless, essential.
For a 13th year, Winifred Barnum-Newman will ask San Antonians to join her for not only the celebration of Race Unity Day but for the possibility that man-made walls of false separation and suspicion can be knocked down by the force of understanding.
This Saturday, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Villita Assembly Building will be the site of Race Unity Day where, with entertainment, food and free admission, people can have fun appreciating the things that unite rather than divide them.
"Prejudice is at the base of all heinous things we do to one another," says Barnum-Newman, a renowned painter, sculptor, writer and illustrator and the executive director of Race Unity. "We want to empower, encourage and educate people to understand that when you change your perceptions of others you change inside for the better."
Race Unity Day was created by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of the United States. Beginning in 1998, Barnum-Newman, a Bahai, made it a citywide event that wouldn't be about religion or politics, two areas at the root of much misunderstanding and dissension.
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