How We are Divided and Nature's Part in the Healing
There’s always more to it. There’s more to that long ago incident, more to that one person you really just don’t like. Things you will never know about or realize were ever going down. There’s so much more than any one person can know or understand. Not just in the facts, but also in the interpretations and the guesses, the misunderstandings and the assumptions, and all the other feelings involved, beyond the shrouded surface of the story. But in all the mess of the things you do and don’t know, I think there are some things that must be a part of the things you are aware of. Assumptions assume . They don’t validate or prove anything. They happen spontaneously with little to no actual thought put into them, according to educational justice leader for students of color Brianne Dotson from Gladstone Institutes. Using our previous knowledge, our brains classify those similar to us as in the same group and apply the things we know to people we may not even know yet. Repeated, t...
