Keep having crucial conversations about race
Having important conversations about race takes a TON of patience. Especially when your conversations don’t seem to be getting anywhere or when the person your talking to just seems flat out resistant.
That’s why I made this video with hopefully helpful reminders.
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Facts do a miserable job at changing people’s beliefs. Relationships matter more.
That’s why it’s valuable to have these conversations in the context of relationship. I mean, stand up against racism wherever you see it, but my relationships with other people have set my approach, my expectations, and my focus for doing the work.
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All of us have relationships with people who might not be open to paying attention to 13th or reading Ibram X. Kendi, but who would have a conversation with us. That gives each of us a unique and important role to play.