Nutty & How do we work toward equality?
3 Favs & a Q - May 12, 2022
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Favorite Book Quote: Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani
“Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.”
Random Favorite: Boxes
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This question was first published in the March 18, 2021 - 3 Favs & a Q edition.
Question: How do we work toward equality?
This is a bit of a different question for me, but it’s an important one. So here we go…
I don’t believe equality can exist within the system we’re in and I think that trying to make it happen is damaging. Why? Because it creates “teams”. In the United States, at this time, some of those teams are the Black Lives Matter Movement, the police, the “White Privileged”, and “People of Color”.
(Are you discounting my words because I’m a white Karen who couldn’t possibly know anything about anything - especially this? Interesting. Notice that.)
This just leads to more discrimination, more hate, and people feeling guilty for how they were born. Equality can not, and will not, exist in a system where people have to fight for it.
Even the people who put signs up that say “Hate has no home here…” contribute to the hate. Why? Because they hate hate.
We must begin to love those that hate. It is only love that can heal the hearts and the beliefs that lead to hate.
What is really required is that we honor and accept everyone for who they are and what they believe, even if that belief is not palatable to us.
But, you say, should I love those people who harm children? I say love everyone. (Isn’t that true Equality?) That’s not to say that you should not protect those who need protection by all means necessary. You absolutely should. But do it with love and honor. Because, chances are, the person who desires to harm another has made the choice to do so because of an early childhood trauma. That same energy can not heal a person or the society in which that person was created. Only love can do that.
But as far as “equality”, I think that it also discounts people’s strengths (which typically come from overcoming hardships - the same hardships that you want to erase with “equality”). When you try to make everyone the same you take away what makes them special. When you begin to honor people for their differences then, I think, you create a system in which Equality is available - a system in which everyone has the opportunity to contribute just because, as Dr. Seuss says: “Today you are You, that is truer than true, and there is no one alive that is You-er than You”.
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I appreciate you sharing on this important topic. This is an area we can all continue to work on and grow in. It is important for us to notice our own bias when it comes up and acknowledge where that thinking may come from and how we can shift into a new way of thinking about these things. I also think it is important to put love out into the universe. This does not mean we can’t still address conflict. Many times when we enter into conflict from a place of love and desire for understanding, we actually surface from that conflict closer to others and with a deeper respect for others. I do agree that when working with people who had a history of some sort of behavior that was not ideal for our society, most of those individuals had a history of trauma, particularly during their childhood. I am so thankful that there continues to be research on understanding childhood (and adult) trauma and how to best support individuals after they have experienced trauma.