God and Race - Session 2: Start In Your Heart
God and Race (John Siebeling & Wayne Francis) • 22m
The white-knuckle approach is to get angry and ask, *Why can’t they get over it already?* The black-fist approach is to retaliate and ask, *Do you now feel the pain you’ve made me feel?* Instead, we must acknowledge the *profiling* that happens and see the *privilege* some of us have over others. We need to ask *What is broken in the system causing all this pain to spill over? How can we course correct?*
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