This is way too unstructured to really get something out of it, but this part is an illustration of a very interesting phenomenon: Just getting to know the Other a bit is the best remedy of...
This is way too unstructured to really get something out of it, but this part is an illustration of a very interesting phenomenon:
I was visiting them both in the hospital when my grandmother said, simply: I was wrong to use the N word. And I was wrong to tell you all those horrible things about black people. It’s what my daddy taught me and it was wrong. She said it in front of her roommate, who listened but never said a word. It was a movie ending — and it was true.
This is way too unstructured to really get something out of it, but this part is an illustration of a very interesting phenomenon:
Just getting to know the Other a bit is the best remedy of racism. It seems to me that most racism is born out of some kind of distancing, voluntary or not. When the distance is removed, hate cannot survive, for it is built on stereotypes and other ignorance. Reminds me of this: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes