Gavin Media NU World's Race Across America

Sarasota, FL, April 24, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Race Across America, an intercultural journey, began with an idea back in the mid-nineties. The concept was to travel around the country in an RV ala "On The Road with Charles Kuralt, and engage people from all walks of life on the subject of "race." What it is? What it isn't.

It was the goal of The Gavin Media Institute to have an on-going series of programs throughout the country that would take various forms. One such project was an "installation" hosted by the Capitol City YWCA, in Washington, DC which featured the documentary short, "People Like Me."

Now Gavin Media NU World is reviving Race Across America as a series of podcasts available via Youtube and broadcasts available via Ustream TV.

Why now?

According to the literature which provides an overview to the project, "even in the age of Obama, and maybe especially now, it seems more than ever that the concept of 'race' effects much of our public policy, from Healthcare to Welfare, from notions of 'Makers vs. Takers,' from Prisons to Drugs, Housing, Immigration, Education, and remains a hindrance to forming that elusive 'more perfect union."

"We can't get past it until we deal with both the Truth & the Consequences. The Racial agenda of privilege and power is promulgated, reinforced everywhere throughout popular culture," so says Walt Gavin, producer of the the series.

This first installment is called "We The People Are Racists" and features an interview with Anthropologist Nina Jablonski, author of the book Skin, A Natural Evolution on how skin color became racialized, empowering some, while devaluing others.

According to the Blog Post accompanying the first video installment:
"Everything that America is and isn't must be examined through its "racial prism," if we are ever to put that past behind us and move forward. "Racism" is part of the DNA of America. It hasn't gone anywhere and won't until folks deal with it from that place. In this case America is guilty until proven innocent. Race-ism in America is always going to be a matter of degree, unless and until folks embrace the notion that "race" is a fiction, but "racism" is very much alive and well."

Walter Harris Gavin is the driving force behind Gavin Media NU World and the author of The Autobiography of Obsidian Dumar