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The Love Renegade#308: I Love You Keith Bardwell (Phase I & II)
2012
1st trailer /Music by Carlos Gomez



This experimental documentary is still in production.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart. You have to do something in order for compassion to be born in your heart. In order to be compassionate you have to understand why the other person has done that to you and to your people. You have to see that they are victims of their own confusion, of their own wrong view, their own grieving, their own discrimination, their own lack of understanding and compassion. -----Thic Nhat Hanh

".......while our culture can be so focused on retribution and revenge, The Love Renegade and myself collaborate on unsolicited acts of love.In our current sights is former Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell. In 2009 he broke the law by not marrying an interracial couple in Louisiana, because he believes that children of interracial marriage have difficult lives.
In our experimental documentary 'The Love Renegade#308: I Love You Keith Bardwell (Phase I & II)' we are going to the source ourselves to help put Keith's mind at rest. We are giving the topic of LOVE (not race) back to interracial couples asking them the reasons they chose to marry their partner, and we let biracial people/kids speak on their own behalf on how they feel about Keith or anyone for that matter who places their "fears" on the backs of biracial children. The entire film focuses this discussion through compassion, love and forgiveness, in the hopes that this opens up dialog and hearts.

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