I as a Vipassana meditator consider this film offensive to African Americans . On the eve of Anton Sterling's death another killing of an innocent black person in America. I must speak out. The film depicted in this interview was readily created out of a system which disproportionally arrests and jails black men then that very same system gives them a panacea like Vipassana mediation to deal with their fate and shares this information with the world. While asking the same organization to create a film depicting black men and women who are not incarcerated sitting a Vipassana course to use for out reach within the the African community was vehemently opposed by the organization. This past winter a children's course where African American children learned Anapana was created as a film for out reach in the black American community. This was created after much struggle and protest from the nearly all white organization. I ask myself do you have no shame?
