Notice the Rage. Notice the Silence.
The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near
where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is
working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and
nervous systems, and all we condense into the word "race." Krista
Tippett sat down with him in Minneapolis, where they both live and work,
before the pandemic lockdown began. Says Menakem, "You're gonna have to
build culture and community to be able to hold this. Your niceness is
inadequate to deal with the level of brutality that has occurred. Your
niceness -- I'm glad you're nice to me. But don't attribute that
niceness as embodied antiracist practice." In this heartbreaking moment,
after the killing of George Floyd and the history it carries, Resmaa
Menakem's practices offer us the beginning to change at a cellular
level.
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