Ask your schools whether curriculums and textbooks are equitable and multicultural.

Encourage teachers and administrators to adopt diversity training and tolerance curricula. Teaching Tolerance magazine and other diversity education materials.

Encourage your children to become tolerance activists. They can form harmony clubs, build multicultural peace gardens, sponsor "walk in my shoes" activities and join study circles to interact with children of other cultures.

Watch where your children are surfing on the Internet. Discuss the problem of hate sites openly, as you would the dangers of sex and drugs.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide, 1999.