Sue’s Reviews > Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race–And Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us > Status Update
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When we reduce someone else's humanity to a single-story, we can for a moment feel superior. And this is actually the appeal of racism. It's a reduction of a race of people to a stereotype. That reduction makes some people feel more powerful, even though they aren't. Racism is inherently immature, a form of cowardice, often hiding anonymously within a group that chatters the same things.
— Nov 21, 2016 03:18PM
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Sue
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When we focus on another person's skin, we miss the reality of our own sin. This is not about religion or church. This about you and me, black and white, individually acknowledging that we have done wrong. That we have judged others. That we have bias and prejudice in our hearts. It starts here.
— Nov 21, 2016 03:22PM
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Any entertainment that exalts the self inherently feeds pride, and pride is the biggest problem that leads to violence and death.
— Nov 21, 2016 02:57PM
Sue
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I'm frustrated because we have believed a lie that says we can listen to, watch, and read about violence, sex,and lawlessness and not expect it to desensitize us.
— Nov 21, 2016 02:53PM
Sue
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The solution to the problem of race in America will be found only by ordinary people, "good" people, looking inside themselves, being honest about the assumptions and biases that have formed, and beginning to change what's in their hearts.
— Nov 21, 2016 10:36AM
