other person on that stage looked like me. I got a taste of how this privilege, and the power dynamics that came with it, gave me advantages that kept me separate from the others. David had tried to teach me this at Life Café years before — but I didn’t get it then. Now I saw it, and it could not have been clearer. This separation is endemic in our society; it perpetuates the oppression that harms and impedes certain groups while protecting and advancing others — based on race, religion, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and education — and it runs deep in the collective psyche, influencing
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