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I found this "picture of life" very powerful! I hope people tak

I found this "picture of life" very powerful! I hope people tak

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 5, '20 8:15am

RambleOn : I fail to see the benefit of raising awareness if there is no call to action.

@cjsummers :
Maybe raising awareness is one of the steps in coming up with solutions?

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 5, '20 8:28am

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 5, '20 9:04am

Considering the large numbers of people who think they do not have bias but clearly do, or that think their bias is somehow legitimate...

Considering the large numbers of people who are oblivious to the advantages (privilege) they receive but fail to recognize it in the context of their views of others....

Yeah awareness is VERY important. Without awareness, it is difficult to have empathy.

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 5, '20 4:10pm

AverageSue : My oldest son Ryan was one of the first special education students for the Special Education Association Peoria County (SEAPCO). So, at the age of 3.5, they set up a teacher for him at the Hanna City Grade School, and within 2 months, they had 4 more students. We lived in Farmington at the time, so, they set up a driver to take him and the other students to the school in Hanna City. Then, they broadened the classes for more people needing that special education into the Oak Grove schools in the Bartonville area where my son went to school for a few years. Thank goodness for all of the help we had back then.

@pictureme2 : I have a son who received OT, PT, speech, and two itinerant teachers: TVI and O&M. His main disability is low vision (legally blind)

And I have been in PWD circles for almost 25 years. It's very expensive. Today, he's college educated, and paying taxes.

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 5, '20 9:18pm

@AverageSue : Luv it!

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 6, '20 4:31pm

@cjsummers: I totally agree.

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 7, '20 12:03am

With 1:14 remaining the speaker says "Because the reality is, if this was a fair race, and everyone was back on that line, I guarantee you some of these black dudes would smoke all of you".
I kind of found this an odd statement to make. I thought the point he was trying to make was white privilege gives you an advantage in life, not how bad your *** would get kicked in a foot race by a "black dude". One could make the argument that these people need the privilege because they are slow, fat, and lazy and would stand no chance otherwise is kind of the exact opposite of the point he is trying to make.

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~ 3 years, 11 mos ago Jun 7, '20 8:21am

@cjsummers : I'm so very thankful for that program. It saved the life of someone very close to me.

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