Standing on a Prayer: A Burden for People of Color

We are still looking for trusted answers and better pathways to vulnerability and empathy. A city collective is praying for answers. Vulnerability and empathy are virtues which are categorized and sometimes caricatured as formulations of “weakness”, a subset of fear. I don’t believe for a minute that empathy or vulnerability is a sign of weakness. On the contrary, these are virtues of the strong and wealthy. However the dominant culture seems to view these as weakness. As such, we tend to realize them almost exclusively as attributes of fear. We can trade on fear. It’s a viable commodity but this need not be.

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