What is Race? In a nutshell, race is a system created by White men to organize humanity based on criteria they deemed important. The system is, just like all human intellectual tools, a coping mechanism for wrapping human minds around a phenomenon far greater than humans have shown themselves capable of fully grasping, life itself. … [Read more…]
I came up with a saying decades ago that has guided my life. It’s this: “You can’t choose what to look at, but you can choose how to look at it.” The main building block to this realization was master negotiator Robert Dawson’s audio series on negotiation tactics, where he gave the example of holding … [Read more…]
America was anti-Black from its inception and it still is. Many feel racism is conscious and intentional but that’s far from true. Racism is America’s original form so any thoughts formed from the American mindset will likely have a racist trajectory. To undo this racist underpinning, if America even intends to, would take a degree … [Read more…]