03-18-2017, 10:55 AM
Hi Joseph, thank you for being patient with me and trying to understand. Sorry I have failed in my own patience. You have done such a good job in spite of my failings, so thank you.
I guess my problem with the Morgan Freeman video is that Morgan Freeman is an extremely wealthy man. He's obviously not affected by racial issues like black people who live on the south side of Chicago. I wonder if other African Americans feel that Morgan speaks for them on this issue? I've tried to use the analogy of a bodily illness - if you have a pain in your leg, do you just ignore it and say that it's an "illness of the past"? Or do you address what's wrong, and then let it heal? It's a slippery paradox, of course, because we must envision the healed reality we want to create, but I think the reason I feel so reactive to this issue in particular is because I feel like the forum here quite often says that talking about things makes them worse. I don't agree with that. I think talking about things is the FIRST STEP to making them better. And that means, I believe, a lot of the men who are internalizing the guilt for the events that women speak of occurring need to find a way to let that go. No one is asking you to feel guilty, and it's the guilt that causes repression. At least, that's how I see this playing out a lot. You think it's the guilt we're asking for but we're really just asking for acknowledgement in the ways that we ALL unconsciously participate in this paradigm, because in that way we are shedding light on things that are still in the darkness. To speak of it as a "problem in the past" when it's clearly not is to keep it in darkness. To say that we are in a state of equality now will perpetuate the inequality we have accepted as status quo.
Quote:I like how Morgan Freeman said to end racism, I think it can be applied here. Stop talking about it in a way that reinforces the fact its so prevalent. Speak of it only as a fading problem of the past. Let it know its time came and went, and alwys speak of equality rather than separation.
I guess my problem with the Morgan Freeman video is that Morgan Freeman is an extremely wealthy man. He's obviously not affected by racial issues like black people who live on the south side of Chicago. I wonder if other African Americans feel that Morgan speaks for them on this issue? I've tried to use the analogy of a bodily illness - if you have a pain in your leg, do you just ignore it and say that it's an "illness of the past"? Or do you address what's wrong, and then let it heal? It's a slippery paradox, of course, because we must envision the healed reality we want to create, but I think the reason I feel so reactive to this issue in particular is because I feel like the forum here quite often says that talking about things makes them worse. I don't agree with that. I think talking about things is the FIRST STEP to making them better. And that means, I believe, a lot of the men who are internalizing the guilt for the events that women speak of occurring need to find a way to let that go. No one is asking you to feel guilty, and it's the guilt that causes repression. At least, that's how I see this playing out a lot. You think it's the guilt we're asking for but we're really just asking for acknowledgement in the ways that we ALL unconsciously participate in this paradigm, because in that way we are shedding light on things that are still in the darkness. To speak of it as a "problem in the past" when it's clearly not is to keep it in darkness. To say that we are in a state of equality now will perpetuate the inequality we have accepted as status quo.
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