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🗓️ 29 July 2020
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We give some thoughts to the idea of not entering into racial justice conversations due to not wanting to offend someone or by saying the "wrong" thing.
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0:00.0 | All right, I got a question for both of you. |
0:09.1 | Can you help speak into, you know, a lot of conversations that I have with race and friends |
0:15.8 | and communities that I'm involved with? |
0:18.1 | They're very hesitant to get into the conversation. |
0:20.4 | And they're hesitant because to get into the conversation. |
0:25.4 | And they're hesitant because of fear of saying something that's offensive. |
0:31.1 | Because they're not meaning to be offensive, but maybe something they say at some point is offensive. |
0:36.8 | And so my fear is that a lot of people are not entering the conversation at all. |
0:40.5 | So can we, I would love to hear y'all's thoughts on, you know, |
0:43.4 | basically encourage people to have the conversation. |
0:49.3 | And then maybe that'll probably allude into like a cancel culture type of conversation. |
0:51.9 | But yeah, what would you say to somebody that's just like, |
0:59.7 | how do I get into the conversation without offending someone? Yeah, I think that first thing to, is just to get your motive right, that the motive needs to be love. Let's use a metaphor. Let's say that you're trying, you want to learn |
1:04.8 | Spanish because you love Spanish, Hispanic people. But at first, you don't know Spanish well. |
1:13.8 | So then you could be like nervous that like, well, okay, I've been reading a little bit of Spanish in a book, but now I'm nervous to get |
1:17.7 | into a conversation because I might say something wrong. And if you use that fear as a reason not to |
1:23.1 | engage, then you're never going to learn Spanish. You have to at some point enter in, |
1:29.2 | motivated by love, and the purpose can't be because you want to, you know, look good in that |
1:36.4 | situation. It has to be about something bigger. It has to be about entering into a relationship |
1:40.3 | and pursuing another person who's worth, sorry, pursuing another person who's worth knowing. |
1:48.3 | Black people are worth knowing. They are not just equal, made in God's image and equal. They're |
1:56.3 | like worth knowing. Like you can, let me put this the right way, black people can give something to your |
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