Robin DiAngelo on "White Fragility"
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individual experience - shared, yes - but still individual
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hopefully a time will come where
as a white person
is no longer used
and instead, we will hear
as a person using a white ethnicity/racial body
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I find that even yogis are into this where the identity with the body as the person is the language and feeling. In that case does that mean that the coreSelf is white or black?
This takes some considering.
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Indeed, individual and endemic throughout!
As soon and as long the coreSelf has to be reliant on "feeders"/ adjuncts to interpret its environments, discrimination becomes part of the equation and a fundamental piece to consider, especially as the need for survival is factored in.
This is calculated initially on its basic individual level, then family, creed, community, ethnic group(s), and "race" (if it applies - sociologically incorrect).
So, in the long-run, we have to think ahead and also realize that all supporting this movement may not sometime down the road be at all comfortable with equality in society, beyond a fashionable rhetoric.
Just like we have and continue living through a full-blown reaction to the election to the "People's House" of a Black man, we are likely to experience a backlash of the current uprising against the social status-quo.
The coreSelves will always be subjected to the filtration of experience through their assigned lenses.
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Michael Beloved here is another video of her. addressing the individual and shared experience.
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very detailed analysis of human cultural development
~ high end ~
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A very interesting position that provides insight.
She does an implicit bias in the beginning by stated multiple times men's institutions. She means White men's institutions.
Always that assumption or universally and implicitly righteous over other options or possibilities.
In fairness, she did say "my group". It is an opportunity for growth when we sincerely put ourselves in others' shoes for miles on end.
It requires a certain degree of appreciation of oneself in the first place.
