Racism
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Racism
racist White people unleash on Black people
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Kindness is the water of humanity. Without water, we harden. Kindness is an attitude, an aspiration, and a practice.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Mine is a joy born not of laughter but of peace. This is okay.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Why do we avoid looking at the ways in which we uphold systems of body shame and terror? For the exact same reasons we avoid exploring uncomfortable thoughts about our own bodies and lives: we are in a constant struggle to distinguish our indoctrinated beliefs and behaviors from our true, radically self-loving beings.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
But so much of what we think and feel about people of other races is dictated by our system, and not our hearts. Who we see as successful, who has access to that success, who we see as scary, what traits we value in society, who we see as “smart” and “beautiful”—these perceptions are determined by our proximity to the cultural values of the
... See moreIjeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
That common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance of our differences. To equal political rights and equal opportunity. To participating in our civic life. To sacrificing for the ideals we hold in common. To upholding the truth.
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A key difference between the Black experience and immigrant experience is lack of opportunity. As tough as immigrants had it, their core experience was rooted in opportunity. That opportunity was sometimes a dangling carrot, but there was no carrot for slaves.
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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Both the Negro and the Jew are helpless; the pressure of living is too immediate and incessant to allow time for understanding. I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by the conditions of his life. All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying
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