The religious community is essential, for alone, our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.
Mark Morrison-Reed
The One Nation Experience project, has decided to actively engage youth members from the Christian, Islamic, Judaism, and Buddhist communities in order to exhibit the highest level of collective civic engagement ever demonstrated among religious communities. These communities were chosen because they are the four largest organized religions in the United States of America. Common ground relationships (CGR) have previously been established between these religious communities. CGR have been previously established in the areas of communal ethics, social morals, health and cultural associations. The O.N.E. Project aims to create a new groundbreaking common interest relationship among religious youth; the HipHop Culture. The HipHop culture has evolved from it’s original conception.
Though created in the United States by African Americans, HipHop culture and music is now global in scope. Youth culture and opinion is meted out in both Israeli HipHop and Palestinian HipHop, while Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., Poland, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean have long established HipHop followings.
According to the U.S. Department of State, HipHop is "now the center of a mega music and fashion industry around the world," that crosses social barriers and cuts across racial lines. HipHop has impacted many different countries culturally and socially in positive ways. "Thousands of organizers from Cape Town to Paris use HipHop in their communities to address environmental justice, policing and prisons, media justice, and education."
The HipHop culture does not exclude or cast away young people from any faith communities, but rather tends to unify them over a tight track as a dope beat.
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