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When I saw that Dante Wright was pulled over for having an air freshener dangling from his rear view mirror,

it brought up some pretty powerful memories, ones I've discussed on the podcast before,

but that's what I'm going to focus on for this bonus episode. And I understand that race

relations don't seem to fit into the dynamic of the wellness industry. But as I've argued numerous

times, there are many moving pieces of what really defines wellness. And if the focus is going to be

individual wellness, which is so much behind this anti-mask and anti-vax rhetoric about

the sovereign immune system for example, it really misses the point of a holistic wellness.

Which means the collective, which means taking care of every member of the society in which you live in.

And I also recognize that America is not a small society. It is very large both in terms of

land mass and population and diversity. And of course we have to remember that America is an experiment.

It was the first time at least the principles of a place where people from every background

and gender can commune together having equal representation was made possible. And it took a long

time from the founding or if you're watching the HBO series, which I recommend exterminate all

brutes, the colonization of this country. It took many centuries for at least the possibility of

a equal playing ground being brought forward. So while I know we just talk about wellness influencers

often on this, if we don't grapple with the forthcoming effects of climate change

...