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LOVING POLITICS and RACISM
Those of us who recognize our racist thoughts and feelings can heal the wounds of our own racism by feeling deeply how racist we are and by allowing all the anger, fear, and hurt associated with racism to surface. We don't act on these feelings nor do we say aloud any racist thoughts; instead, with at least one friend we SILENTLY think those thoughts and try to feel them to their full intensity.
We decide to face and feel them- to laugh, to cry, to rage, to shiver and shake. Racism melts - exactly like ice; It takes heat to melt ice—heat in the form of painful emotion.
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REALITY PROVIDES US WITH ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES WE NEED IF WE WISH TO LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM OUR SOCIAL CONDITIONING AND INCREASE OUR SELF-AWARENESS AND OUR EMPATHY FOR ONE ANOTHER.
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LET'S NOT FORGET THAT VICTIMS OF WHITE RACISM INCLUDE THOSE OF US WHO ARE NATIVE AMERICAN...
and everyone else who may not be "white."
P.S. I'm pale and kind of mottled.
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FIRST VIDEO ON THINKING ABOUT AND FEELING DEEPLY THE EMOTIONS THAT "RACISM" EVOKES.
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