Subject: Re: Waldorf and Apartheid
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 11:32:53 +0200
From: Sune Nordwall <Sune.Nordwall@home.se>

Peter Zegers wrote:

Below you will find a letter I send by e-mail to the Federation  of Waldorfschools in South Africa a while ago. [February 25, 2001] So far I haven´t received an answer. ... 

... the final report of the Dutch Anthroposophical Society on Anthroposophy and the question of the races stated very clearly that Stibbe was a racist (see below). ...

http://www.rudolfsteiner.org/presssummary.htm... P.S. When I checked this url today[June 29, 2001], it was no longer available. Unfortunately I didn´t find another url for the English summary of the Dutch final report.

With all reports floating around the world, it admittedly at times is difficult to distinguish between them all ;-))

What you quote from in your posting is
- the Press Summary from February 4, 1998 of the Interim report, not 
- the Press Summary from April 1, 2000 of the Final report of the Commission.

Your problem accessing the page seems to have been temporary. It still can be found at http://www.rudolfsteiner.org/presssummary.html Both Press Summaries also can be found on the page.

The Press Summary of the Final report also can be found at
http://www.info3.de/English/e-0400report.html
http://www.uncletaz.com/steinerrace.html and
http://hem.passagen.se/thebee/...PressSummary.htm
and possibly also other places.

In regard to the discussion, the General Council of The Anthroposophical Society in America in January 1998 issued a Position statement on racism rejecting racism in all its forms.

*The Anthroposophical Society in America is committed to developing the potential of every human being to its fullest. Admission to the Society is open to everyone without regard to sex, religion, national origin, race, or ethnicity. In addition, the Society does not discriminate due to artistic or scientific orientation.

We emphatically reject racism in all its forms, and embrace the principles of common humanity expressed by the founder of The Anthroposophical Society, Rudolf Steiner:

"[We] must cast aside the division into races. [We] must seek to unite people of all races and nations, and to bridge the divisions and differences between various groups of people."

The Universal Human, Lecture 1*

Also, http://www.spiritworking.org/article.php?sid=43 gives some pictures of Steiner's views of human diversity and the humanity that lives in all of us.

Sune Nordwall
Stockholm, Sweden

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