I wasn’t born thinking that Hispanic people are lazy and black people are violent and women who are assaulted are crying for attention. Those things were taught to me, by people who’d been taught them as children before me. Inside the isolated, protected brain, evil can seep in and bloom. We are not bad, but when we allow ourselves to close our minds and become islands of ignorance, our worse impulses can take over. We have to unlearn all those things; unteach ourselves the lessons of our fearful fathers. When we see injustice in the world and do nothing, we are just like the oppressors –
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