Breaking Racial Barriers

Watch the video with your mentee(s), then use the questions below to have a mentoring conversation with them.


  • What did the young black men do that was unexpected?
  • Why did they do it?
  • What is the relationship between the older white woman and the black young men now?
  • How does their relationship break down age and racial barriers?
  • Would you do something like this?  Why or why not?
  • What could you do to break down an age or racial barrier?
  • What could you do to bring joy and encouragement into the life of an older person?
  • Why does our world need more of these acts of kindness?
  • In the Bible, in James 1:27, it says, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”  Who are the orphans and widows that you should look after?

  •     Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior?     

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