“A Practitioners Perspective On Racial Equity”..
CONSCIOUSLY AWARE.. In my forty-four years of living, I don't think I've ever been as conscious and aware of my own "brown skin", then during the first five years of living in Minnesota. Personally, I grew up in a military environment, where diversity was common; where I never felt the least bit "different", because of the color of my skin; and where everyone's skin color was simply understood to be an issue of pigmentation. As we all know now, "skin color" is all about genetics, which is basically the product of both the individual's biological parents' genetic makeup, as well as the individual's exposure to the sun within a particular geographic area. If ONLY these simple yet profound facts, were able to curb the tide of ignorance and indifference of "radical" white or black nationalist groups, whose mission's often polarizes, ostracizes, and bastardizes anyone else whose different. So, now we k...