By: Hazel Lamb, UK-22

Hazel Lamb, UK-22 — Mon, 30 May 2022 12:58:54 +0000

Sooooo challenging – thanks Kerry and Dave……wish I’d read these thoughts when I was working in a local homelessness project where I discovered the punters posed the least of my problems. It was competition between those who wanted to be recognised for their helping work (I confess these included myself) which caused most headaches!

By: Dave Neuhausel, NA 22

Dave Neuhausel, NA 22 — Tue, 24 May 2022 22:53:38 +0000

Hey Kerry, thanks so much for your thoughtful post. I learned quite a bit about reparations from your post and I really resonated with your honest questions and confessions with regard to encountering other peopling the helping space who are hard to like (Ugh, that brutally honest question you asked)… This agitates some off my “real-time” personal challenges and reflections that I am currently facing. Particularly in the advocacy and justice space as a white straight, cis-gendered male, I position my self as being really nice, smart and very aware (well read/informed), and I work really hard to listen compassionately. These are all good things and they’re most often “the right things” to say, do, be… A lot of people I encounter in this space are very unkind and quick to judge (me), and some I experience as pretty entitled. Most of the time when I encounter this behavior I give them a pass because of assumed traumas, wounds, racial battle fatigue, etc… But, I think I do this too quickly and I think its a subtle way of paying recompense for my own white guilt. Im learning that if I do the right thing from the wrong place it’s actually not the right thing (for me). Its not integrated and authentic. It’s as bad as glib religiosity. It’s a new form of progressive legalism. ugh. Thanks for your honesty – it gives me permission.

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By: Hazel Lamb, UK-22

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