Racism
Ongoing discussion…
Racism
Ongoing discussion…
racist White people unleash on Black people
Kindness is the water of humanity. Without water, we harden. Kindness is an attitude, an aspiration, and a practice.
Mine is a joy born not of laughter but of peace. This is okay.
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.
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 moreA 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.
Cole Arthur Riley • 58 highlights
amazon.comBoth 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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