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#1 I recently gave a speech at the Aspen Institute in which I argued that white guilt has damaged the self-esteem, if not the souls, of minorities more than white racism ever did.
#2 I was used to being provocative, but my comments about race being rooted in classic Jeffersonian liberalism rather than white guilt was absolutely unpalatable to many.
#3 I had the same...
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#1 I was 16 years old when I met Jake. I was black, and he was white. We started dating, and his family rejected me because of my race. They were willing to throw their own son out of their home and onto the streets like garbage to teach him and others a lesson about what must never come of having been the first generation in his family to go to a racially integrated...
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#1 Beards are more trustworthy. Men with beards are seen as more trustworthy. Americans have a pro-beard bias.
#2 People are only biased because that is how they are hardwired. The scientists who study human behavior believe that bias exists as a human survival mechanism. We must understand that our friends, family, and colleagues are human and are designed to have bias.
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#1 I didn't know what was happening because I was too focused on work, but later learned that the towers had been attacked.
#2 I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, when the towers got attacked. I witnessed the collapse of both towers, and the death of my friend Joe. I was never the same after that.
#3 9/11 was the event that catalyzed my own personal transformation....
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#1 In 1902, Queen Alexandra invited 10,000 maids-of-all-work to tea parties across London to celebrate the coronation. The girls were allowed to wear their own clothes rather than their usual uniform of cap and apron.
#2 The English middle-class ideal was reflected in the home, which was full of servants who represented the nation's sense of natural and social order.
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#1 George Floyd died with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in his system, which meant he had recently contracted the virus that was a leading cause of death in the United States that summer. He had endured a difficult life marked by racism at various turns.
#2 George Floyd, a Black man, died from SARS-CoV-2 in Minneapolis. His death demonstrated the link between racism...
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#1 Ageism is the discrimination against older people, and it is pervasive in American society. It is a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age, and aging itself.
#2 As modernity took root in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older members of society were reduced to a status of social inferiority. The young United States was a gerontocracy, where older...
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#1 Somatics is the art of listening to your body and understanding what you feel. It helps you understand what you want and need, and it helps you develop self-knowledge and change.
#2 Somatics is a holistic methodology and theory of change that understands both personal and collective transformation through a radically different paradigm. It differs from approaches...
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#1 The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.
#2 I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.
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#1 Racism is when you discriminate against someone based on their race, creed, or color. It is not limited to race, and it is always rooted in power.
#2 Racism is the assertion of superiority in order to discriminate. It is the defense of unequal treatment based on the perceived idea of race. It is a fairly modern idea that came to full realization in the Western...
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#1 The Teleological Argument states that the universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator because it is too complex to have arisen by chance. However, many scientists and philosophers have shown that complex systems can arise without a designer.
#2 The idea of complexity by design is flawed because it assumes that all complex things require an intelligent...
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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...
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#1 To find your power, you must first break through the delusions you are forced to ignore as a woman of color working in corporate environments. Delusions are so-called rules that have been set up around you. They are stories you have been told to make you believe and act a certain way.
#2 The truth is, Corporate America has never fostered true equity for women of color,...
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#1 The 112th Congress was exciting and chaotic, and it was difficult to learn the ropes and rules of the house. But you must absolutely hit the ground running, as you must assemble a staff both in your home district and in Washington.
#2 I had established myself as an ideological leader within the conference, and I wanted Paul to sign a book for me. He had roadmaps for...
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#1 I like to travel, and I'm good at finding potential puns. I don't keep track of disappointments, and I like parties but I don't really like them.
#2 Sasha's language interest was in language itself, its shape and structure. She was interested in the fact that adding an s at the end of the word cat made it plural. English, on the other hand, poses a challenge for people...
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.
#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world's reckoning with death-dealing...
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#1 In 2003, Robert Lucas, a professor at the University of Chicago, gave the presidential address at the American Economic Association's annual meetings. He declared that the central problem of depression prevention had been solved, and that modern macroeconomic policy had reduced the problem to the point that it was more of a nuisance than a front-rank issue.
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#1 I have always believed that the choice you make after a traumatic event changes your life forever. I was arrested for robbing and murdering two people, but I was found guilty of the crime by a jury. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered. But they had the wrong guy.
#2 I was working the night shift in a locked warehouse when the manager at a Quincy's restaurant was abducted,...
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#1 Frazier's 1957 sociological study of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, was immediately controversial. It accused the Black middle class of being an insecure and powerless group constantly constructing a world of make-believe to deal with an inferiority complex caused by the brutal history of racial domination in the United States.
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