Darius Goes West: Servant Leadership

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While watching the film “Darius Goes West” I identified several qualities that exemplified the idea of servant leadership. Servant leadership was also evident through many people. Although numerous characteristics were presented, the two that stood out to me from the beginning were “building community” and “awareness”. I saw these two qualities in mostly everyone involved in this film. The people that represented a true example of what a servant leader should be were all of Darius’ best friends and most importantly, Darius himself. One of the characteristics of a servant leader, “building community”, is shown throughout the film “Darius Goes West” from the beginning to the end. The sense of building community is shown through Darius’ crew …show more content…

Darius knew that his condition was not well known amongst his generation, but was more well known amongst the generations before him. DMD was more widely recognized in past decades because of the awareness raised by Jerry Lewis, a well-known comedian with Muscular Dystrophy. In Darius’ mind he strived to be his generation’s Jerry Lewis. He knew that nothing could be done about this awful, fatal disease if no one was aware of it and how much of our population it …show more content…

Darius Weems had never traveled from his hometown of Athens and was shocked to find that the pit stops along the way were not always hospitable to his wheelchair handicap. The first time Darius witnessed the lack of handicap accessibility was at a gas station they had stopped at while traveling. None of the sidewalks leading into the store had a ramp area for his wheelchair to move along and because of this Darius ended up having to use the restroom on their RV instead. This instance opened the eyes of Darius to the handicap accessibility problem that was visible at many other stops throughout the west coast, along with all over the United States. Darius felt that if these places were accessible to those who could walk, then why should they not be accessible to those who cannot. The people I believe who exemplified a servant leader throughout this journey were easily recognizable. Those that I felt portrayed a true servant leader were Darius’ buddies, along with Darius

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