Racism
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Racism
We recognize that while the primary reason that slavery is a moral abomination is what it does to the people who are enslaved, there is something deeply corrupting about being someone who treats someone else as property. I’m not saying it’s the same thing as slavery, but there’s a depravity in treating a person as nothing but a means to your end.... See more
Sublime • Oliver Burkeman is doubling down on the purely human
Link to Minnesota freedom fund to bail out protestors is in bio. Can you donate? Esp my fellow non-Black POC, if you have $ to spare, let’s show our solidarity. White supremacy won’t save any of us. Art by @shirien.creates ❤️
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The hustle and bustle of modern social life can pose challenges to relationship-building—even in spaces designed for exactly that. Coffee shops, churches, libraries, and concert venues are all shared spaces where mingling can take place but doesn’t always.
In this episode of “How to Talk to People,” Julie Beck and Rebecca Rashid... See more
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Now, recall a moment of loving presence with another person or a moment of deep gratitude. Bring that recollection into your heart and mind. Allow yourself to recall that moment as fully as you can, as a way of igniting your direct experience with care, with kindness.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Compassion practice motivates wise action.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism:
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”