Thank you for the introduction to both Walter White and to the insightful inquiry of NYTN in her YouTube cast. I stumbled upon your post in the way of Substack and look forward to learning more.
To the topic, my frustration is that we continue to segregate race from other forms of othering. If life has taught me anything (and there are times when I am weary in awareness of how very much life has taught me) it is that every one of us is likely to "other" and that all else flows from the pain or the benefit derived from that fact. Every form is worth revealing and learning from and, I suppose, the need for focus on one form or another varies across the range of life experience. For me, with a somewhat unusual background, it is all distilled into this the common, all too human propensity to group among "like" and to point at "the other."
My hope for the future is that we may realize that any one of us is someone else's "other" and the way to realize White's father's aim to make love an action is to allow ourselves to find belonging amid many, diverse "likes."
Thank you for this insightful comment. If we can see ourselves in others, we become others and others become us. Love as an action facilitates a deep dive into, and identification with, the larger world. At least, that has been my worldview since grade school. Glad you stumbled upon my lonely Substack. Best,
I have similar feelings about all this talk about race. It's so exhausting. Thanks for the YouTube video. Yet another book I'll have to get and read....
Thank you for the introduction to both Walter White and to the insightful inquiry of NYTN in her YouTube cast. I stumbled upon your post in the way of Substack and look forward to learning more.
To the topic, my frustration is that we continue to segregate race from other forms of othering. If life has taught me anything (and there are times when I am weary in awareness of how very much life has taught me) it is that every one of us is likely to "other" and that all else flows from the pain or the benefit derived from that fact. Every form is worth revealing and learning from and, I suppose, the need for focus on one form or another varies across the range of life experience. For me, with a somewhat unusual background, it is all distilled into this the common, all too human propensity to group among "like" and to point at "the other."
My hope for the future is that we may realize that any one of us is someone else's "other" and the way to realize White's father's aim to make love an action is to allow ourselves to find belonging amid many, diverse "likes."
Thank you for this insightful comment. If we can see ourselves in others, we become others and others become us. Love as an action facilitates a deep dive into, and identification with, the larger world. At least, that has been my worldview since grade school. Glad you stumbled upon my lonely Substack. Best,
I have similar feelings about all this talk about race. It's so exhausting. Thanks for the YouTube video. Yet another book I'll have to get and read....
You're welcomed.