I don’t think it’s a distorted truth.They are simply the principles In the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The evils of slavery and oppression don’t make those other things not true. I agree about the 2nd class citizenship, but those principles are WHY I agree.
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The reason these issues persist is that 99% of white America is either delusional abt what America actually is or they are blantantly racist. I will put you in the delusional category. Meanwhile Black and Brown people continue to suffocate. That was true in in 1776& its true now
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Well, if you tell someone they’re just delusional to believe what they believe then that certainly ends any possibility of intellectual debate. Had hoped for better. 😔
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Marianne, thanks for representing your views in this discussion. I’m honored because I’ve learned so much from you. I will never give up on America being spiritually innovative.
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Women are used to being told we’re crazy to think what we think. In fact that’s a form of oppression too; patriarchy & all of that. But it’s important to keep it all in perspective: People are good, we’re all doing our best & it’s possible to rise above. Love is all that counts.
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You don't get to be a victim. White
women aren't being brutalized, killed, mass incarcerated by the criminal injustice system. When white men were routinely raping blk women, white women were silent. When blk men were lynched in the audience of thousands, white women participated
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Your being a victim - and in all the ways you mention, I agree that you were and are - doesn’t mean that no one else has been. That applies to groups of people as well as to individuals. And no one has a monopoly on suffering.
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I named three victimized groups--Native Americans, Black women, Black men. White women have, by and large, maintained the status quo of white supremacy. And, in so long as you chose to be delusional about what America is, you will remain complicit.
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Respectfully, one of my favorite things about @marwilliamson is she champions an attitude of #NotOnMyWatch. Spiritual innovation means treating everyone’s children with the same care & tenderness as our own. She ran for Congress to put those ideas into practice.
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About that, I agree. I have written about and spoken about that extensively. I just also feel that as important as it is to identify the problems, it’s important that we identify WITH the problem-solvers. And there have been many.
Jun 15, 2018 · 12:43 PM UTC
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