I didn’t appreciate how important stories were until I started writing seriously. The more I thought about how to communicate well, the more I realised that all communication, literally all communication, is storytelling. News stories, religious stories, love stories, scary stories, stories about who we are and who we can become, we're constantly being sold a story about the world. And it’s never quite the whole truth.
Timely. I recently read Malcolm Gladwell's must read, "Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking."
He pointed out that "When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half."
There was a track and field guy who took the race IAT test frequently and his score remained the same until one day when he had watched the Olympics (black excellence) before taking it and it changed for the better.
He wrote quite a bit on police shootings. "Three of the major race riots in this country over the past quarter century have been caused by what cops did at the end of a chase.” There are too many lessons in that section for me to quote. I will repeat the words must read book.
Since Regan never shared a single fact from her experience, pretty hard to say anything meaningful about her or about her perspective. Maybe she has a point. Maybe she doesn’t. Who knows?
There is so much of this meaningless “vibe” talk. As the inimitable Les McAnn sang, “Trying to make it real, compared to what?”
On another topic: Will you write about reparations, or maybe you have already?
I am no historian, but a perfunctory look back gives the impression that people have abused , controlled and enslaved people from the beginning of mankind. Power, wealth and whole economies were built (and are still being built) on injustice. Everywhere in the world you can walk on streets with oppressed people's blood, sweat and tears on them - how far would the domino of reparations have to go to effect a reparation?
Timely. I recently read Malcolm Gladwell's must read, "Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking."
He pointed out that "When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half."
There was a track and field guy who took the race IAT test frequently and his score remained the same until one day when he had watched the Olympics (black excellence) before taking it and it changed for the better.
He wrote quite a bit on police shootings. "Three of the major race riots in this country over the past quarter century have been caused by what cops did at the end of a chase.” There are too many lessons in that section for me to quote. I will repeat the words must read book.
Since Regan never shared a single fact from her experience, pretty hard to say anything meaningful about her or about her perspective. Maybe she has a point. Maybe she doesn’t. Who knows?
There is so much of this meaningless “vibe” talk. As the inimitable Les McAnn sang, “Trying to make it real, compared to what?”
On another topic: Will you write about reparations, or maybe you have already?
I am no historian, but a perfunctory look back gives the impression that people have abused , controlled and enslaved people from the beginning of mankind. Power, wealth and whole economies were built (and are still being built) on injustice. Everywhere in the world you can walk on streets with oppressed people's blood, sweat and tears on them - how far would the domino of reparations have to go to effect a reparation?