@Omkari
Omkari Williams
@Omkari · 3:34

How Do We Make Things Right?

What do we do as a society when there's harm that's been done that we weren't even alive to participate in, but its ramifications have filtered down through the years and the generations, and you can still see the results that are occurring right now. I'm thinking of slavery in the United States or the genocides in Rwanda or Armenia. How do we repair that harm as a society?

#socialjustice #reparations #truthandreconciliation

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@Karan.Dev
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 3:21
But to really understand suffering, is it truly possible to address these issues without a certain level of sensitivity? And I think to a large extent, the media is guilty of creating desensitization in the minds of a lot of people who are privileged and the government as well mean, it's really a conversation worth having. And thank you so much for posting this
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 3:42

so much to think about

I really think our country is divided on how truth gets heard and how it gets presented and how it gets agreed upon. Secondly, I think the American myth of individual choice and freedom is a real detriment to community reconciliation because I think there's a big contingent of the culture that believes, Well, I didn't do anything personally, so I don't have to participate in any healing right. I didn't own slaves, I didn't kill any Indigenous people
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@Omkari
Omkari Williams
@Omkari · 1:40

There’s power in our stories

And I think together we can find our way through to what I look at as liberation as freedom for all of us, freedom from oppressive systems, freedom from discrimination, freedom from just the pain of living in a world that doesn't count everyone equally valuable. So thanks again for your reply and I look forward to continuing the conversation on this and other subjects
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@Omkari
Omkari Williams
@Omkari · 2:12

Justice isn’t a zero sum endeavor

Hey, Tim, I really appreciate what you had to say because I think you hit the nail right on the head. I think that a big part of our struggle for liberation. Our struggle for justice in the United States is based in our attitudes about what success looks like, what it means and how you get there. And because our idea is that people get there on their own. It's their own hard work. It's their own effort
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