The World Motivation
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
“Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.”
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked.
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.