I see thi got deleted; was it because someone got offended or defensive about human rights? I'm going to risk burning some social capital and share what I wrote in response to the original post:
This is an important topic that too many want to hide from or claim isn't a problem. To not get mired in defensiveness, I acknowledge that my forebears/progenitors, probably not limited to those in the South of the USA, at least discriminated against Black people (and anyone else there was pressure to other; I don't try to ignore or erase this, but to do what I can do in my control, including asking what someone means when they say "them" (oozing pointed meaning, but I play ignorant and ask), working to learn my own implicit biases (there are helpful online tests for this, some used in some police departments, for example, as a start), and reading outside my comfort zone to unmask "unknown unknowns" rather than sit in my otherwise-calcifying tower.
Each of us, regardless of where we came from or what harm we've done, has the power to practice kindness and compassion (and so many other positives, like open awareness, acceptance of differences, curiously working towards understanding, noticing the merits of the many forms of diversity, etc)
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 77.2 ms ] threadThis is an important topic that too many want to hide from or claim isn't a problem. To not get mired in defensiveness, I acknowledge that my forebears/progenitors, probably not limited to those in the South of the USA, at least discriminated against Black people (and anyone else there was pressure to other; I don't try to ignore or erase this, but to do what I can do in my control, including asking what someone means when they say "them" (oozing pointed meaning, but I play ignorant and ask), working to learn my own implicit biases (there are helpful online tests for this, some used in some police departments, for example, as a start), and reading outside my comfort zone to unmask "unknown unknowns" rather than sit in my otherwise-calcifying tower.
Each of us, regardless of where we came from or what harm we've done, has the power to practice kindness and compassion (and so many other positives, like open awareness, acceptance of differences, curiously working towards understanding, noticing the merits of the many forms of diversity, etc)