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This is the Commune podcast, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help

us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.

So I've started writing a weekly Sunday article called commusing, where I wax poetic and

often pathetic around spirituality, philosophy, and culture.

On occasion, I will also record these screeds as bonus episodes for the podcast,

and today I share with you a piece entitled Privilege, a soul-searching that I had while attending a protest rally

in support of Black Lives Matter. In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal

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My name's Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Commun.

Privilege. privilege it's hot skylar my three daughters and i walk east unto long prey to the protest others are clambering down the street placards in hand engaged in various forms of spirited horseplay. A sort of nervous energy pervades, like one that precedes performance. It is Hollywood, after all. I am tuned out,

lost in thought, moated in the subjective experience of what it is to be me. My mind chatters on incessantly as it has for weeks,

commentating on my blundering internal investigation into where and how I am complicit in the

oppression of a people that have so deeply shaped who I am. I've never been blind to the obvious

and insidious crimes of racism in America, nor my role as accomplice,

but I assume there was a fluidity to my identity because my formative years were so inexplicably tied to

black musicians, writers, politicians, and athletes. As a kid, I spent the better of 10,000 hours sweating buckets in my dad's attic,

learning the repertoire of Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt on the guitar.

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