I always like Brene Brown. This took my respect for her to a whole new level.

You can't race hustle and promote any meaningful self responsibility at the same time. It's like oil and water.

@Tango Bear thank-you for sharing, I think there's a blind spot about opportunity. Most people don't get it because this thinking divides us. Be blessed 💚

That we have to say our lives (Black lives matter) is the issue, and to met with all lives matter is tone deaf. How we are treated in this world has led us to having to say our life matter, the world does not treat us in such way that it is true. Saying all lives matter in response to a Black person saying Black lives matter, is adds to our pain. Generally it comes from a white person.

Consider the impact your "one" racist remark had on those around you. While it may have been nothing to you and you feel your comment was misinterpreted, imagine being on the receiving end as a person who cannot change their skin colour. Imagine that these are the very statements you have faced your entire life, having lost job opportunities when you show up for an interview and the interviewer pretends the job has already been filled when they look you up and down and see that you are a black or brown person. Now imagine that wherever you go, you are instantly viewed as a drug addict, a criminal, angry and playing the victim...simply because of the colour of your skin, not by any knowledge of who you are a person. Now imagine that no matter how hard you work (twice the amount as your Caucasian counterparts just to be "seen" by your employer), you are passed over for promotions, condescended to, automatically viewed as being less intelligent in spite of having more degrees and years' more experience than your Caucasian counterparts, and then mocked and bullied if you show the least amount of emotion. Then imagine that even though you grew up in North America, that you are constantly told by strangers and acquaintances alike to "go home to your own country" simply for being and existing in your community, and called racist names since the time you were a small child. That is just a tiny little view of what it is like to live daily in my body with my Asian skin, let alone the depth of genocide, slavery and systemic racism that Black people have had to deal with for centuries. So yeah, let's talk about vulnerability...and EMPATHY. Empathy is all about learning to put yourself in other people's shoes, whether or not you have lived experience with discrimination.