Sublime

Racism is a common denominator for Black people; it’s a given. It’s much more useful, in many cases, to examine the variation within the Black population to see what factors and conditions can be attributed to differences.

Racial disease has to do with our histories, habits, and hearts. To understand racial habits of harm—the ways we avoid more genuine connection and healing as individuals and racial groups—is to dive below our knee-jerk responses, beneath the words themselves, to examine our conditioning. This requires us to work with our mind in order to transform

No one knows about negative ability labels like members of stereotyped groups. For example, African Americans know about being stereotyped as lower in intelligence.

learning about these people.

While many whites see spaces inhabited by more than a few people of color as undesirable and even dangerous, consider another perspective. I have heard countless people of color describe how painful an experience it was to be one of only a few people of color in their schools and neighborhoods. Although many parents of color want the advantages gra

Now imagine for a moment that this was your reality. Imagine having to account for the outward perception you’re generating at all times of the day while at work or conference calls. The amount of energy that’s required to sustain this existence is beyond fathomable for most.