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…]
The biggest thing affecting America’s unity is racism. Since America formed itself on a wholesome, steady diet of racism, weaning it from its bigoted tit has proven difficult if not impossible, to say the least. Underpinning America’s racist core is how various American groups accommodate it. While mainly a subconscious choice, Whites tend to work … [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…]
President Biden will nominate America’s first Black woman Supreme Court Justice. This opportunity will give us a chance to see America’s racism as it occurs. America was a racist country from its inception and is still racist enough to be very effective at hindering black people’s full participation in the American experience. Rather than work … [Read more…]
How Magic Words Evade Discomfort but Tear America Apart. A very effective tool for hiding truths is the “Evasion Label,” a tool that immediately ends constructive dialogue and puts the person seeking understanding on the defensive. Words like “racist,” “Anti-Semite” and “sexist” pit societal norms against curiosity and inquisitiveness. Being that society is more … [Read more…]
The morning after the Derek Chauvin verdict, I woke up to Fox News being subconsciously racist and seeing no fault in it. This yields a great opportunity to demonstrate how systemic racism works. Fox News released a headline that morning associating LeBron James with violence despite him or his tweet they reported on having absolutely … [Read more…]
Righteous Racism happens when non-racists selectively enforce righteous standards, producing a racist effect. One prime example is drug laws, where although African Americans have never been more than 15% of America’s drug users and dealers, they were 40% of the arrests. Although police pursued the righteous cause of fighting drug sales and use, the way … [Read more…]