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Writings about Whiteness and Racism

  • To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest

Category: poverty

by Zee Bee

Black Voters Know White Voters

Maybe if we actually admitted that everything we have in the US is sticky with the blood of slavery and genocide, we’d be more willing to give it up.

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This Is How I Fight

Why do people want to commit mass shootings? Whether they are glorified suicides or not? The illusion of separateness. Whether you believe it’s an illusion or not, the feeling of separateness seems to me pretty clearly the source of every act of aggression, ever. Sometimes the illusion is made unbearably realistic through abuse and neglect. As Dr. Peterson said above, early childhood trauma is the foundation of this behavior.

She Always Brushed Her Teeth

What is it about that sentence?
Is it the clash of the mundane with the profound?
Is it the conflation of obedience with the Goodness? Practicality with morality?
Is it that we all can relate to it, down to the feel of the brushes on our living gums? That we ourselves avoided it, whined about it, that we were worse kids than Amerie? That we could, if we chose to, be reminded of this little girl every morning, every night?

Waking Up is Hard to Do

Funny what intensive meditation will do to you. In my experience, it’s never what you expect. Most of the influence on your life is subtle and hard to read – maybe you’re a little more patient, a little quicker to laugh, a bit more generous. I haven’t had a lot of big revelations that I […]

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