tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post7619976572297279916..comments2023-08-27T04:12:50.916-07:00Comments on Christina Carson Blogging: One of Fear’s Ugliest Faces – RacismCLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15285667433095434961noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-33891252194020813842014-12-04T08:42:29.155-08:002014-12-04T08:42:29.155-08:00How beautiful, your experience in Mali. How sad th...How beautiful, your experience in Mali. How sad that you would have to eventually come to realize that racism was real and nasty. Imagine a world without it...CLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285667433095434961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-5280717325941399062014-12-03T15:03:41.027-08:002014-12-03T15:03:41.027-08:00Sorry the first two tries had errors!!
Christina, ...Sorry the first two tries had errors!!<br />Christina, you are always so eloquent and your words so profound. Everyone should read this blog. My introduction to "racism" was unique. I lived on a farm in Saskatchewan and never saw blacks. I loved Little Black Sambo - he was so clever to defeat the tigers - and had no idea it was racist. Then I went to Mali where the people went out of their way to be helpful, where the children grinned and touched us, then checked their hands to see if the white rubbed off. It was only with the news of atrocities happening world wide and the stories I heard from friends who experienced racism that I learned of racism and it's inherent fears and hatreds. andAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07683301810568953266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-87174191279920290962014-12-03T15:02:37.927-08:002014-12-03T15:02:37.927-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07683301810568953266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-17989979396170166122014-12-03T15:01:45.331-08:002014-12-03T15:01:45.331-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07683301810568953266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-49686016345472156552014-12-03T07:54:39.970-08:002014-12-03T07:54:39.970-08:00It's deep in us. It is actually between the ch...It's deep in us. It is actually between the choice of continuing to operate from subject-object or to actually live from the understanding of oneness. Spooky when you think of it that way, for that's a long road that very few seem to be in any way curious about yet. And yes, the Accidents of Birth Trilogy was written to seduce by kindness anyone open to that notion. Thanks for your caring and the work you do to model love and kindness in words and deeds.CLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285667433095434961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-18008961518487507812014-12-03T07:48:46.333-08:002014-12-03T07:48:46.333-08:00I don't think anyone is immune to the fears th...I don't think anyone is immune to the fears that arise as populations and ways of living change. We are fearful by nature because we have accepted the conditioning that causes us to view the world from the perspective of subject-object, us-them. This institutionalization of separateness creates all manner of fears. We have to get further back in our roots than nationality, race or gender even, to overcome this one. Thanks for your additions, Claude, to this blog in both content and sentiment. It's a tough one indeed.CLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285667433095434961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-12674246557683468842014-12-03T07:43:38.526-08:002014-12-03T07:43:38.526-08:00Thank you, my dear, for your heartfelt honesty. We...Thank you, my dear, for your heartfelt honesty. We humans must stop acting as if we have a choice as to whether to move beyond fear or not, which is the same as saying racism or not. We are expendable just like any other species.CLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285667433095434961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-71993763137715602712014-12-03T04:17:45.166-08:002014-12-03T04:17:45.166-08:00Thank you Christina. A beautifully written piece a...Thank you Christina. A beautifully written piece about what is so prevalent in our society that our news reports it every day and doesn't see it as racism. As you know, I grew up not that far from you, and knew nothing about racism, except hearing both of my parents condemn it - not knowing what they meant. I didn't experience it myself until I was a young teenager. That year we visited my mom's family in LA when I was old enough to go our for a ride with some local teenagers. They saw a black man walking on the side of the road and immediately started chasing him in the car into the woods. I was beyond shocked and terrified. After that I started looking for it in my world, and was amazed to find that it existed in my father's mother. What has always interested me is how my mom, from the south, is not at all racist, but my grandmother from the north was. What does it take it to undo it this? It know you are helping through all that you do, and your new book .. thank you!Beca Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13925250291056781540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-16622254645255872982014-12-03T01:51:42.434-08:002014-12-03T01:51:42.434-08:00A remarkable post, and as always you have chosen t...A remarkable post, and as always you have chosen the right words to express it, Christina, thank you. It was a wonderful experience reading this. Yes, the "seduction of kindness" is the royal road to living all together as one big family. It is the key. Racism is so ugly, over here, in Europe, we know that only too well, after the Holocaust - and that was only the most recent tragedy in a never-ending tragedy that has wound its way down through the centuries. I hope it won't go on but when I watch how Europe reacts to the landings of immigrants in the small Italian island of Lampedusa, I wonder...When will all this ever stop?Claude Forthommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871790739257823515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899935788746803376.post-43414842658139553682014-12-02T20:14:11.550-08:002014-12-02T20:14:11.550-08:00Anyone who believes they are better, or worse, tha...Anyone who believes they are better, or worse, than anyone else based on race, education, nationality, gender, or net worth, is a racist. Thinking of it that way, you realize that it is extremely difficult to find a person who isn't a racist at some level. <br />Should you be lucky enough to find such a person, you have found an individual who understands the oneness of all things. <br />If the day ever comes when there are none left to be found, mankind will have forced the only thing that keeps it alive into extinction.bertcarsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762219228479289310noreply@blogger.com