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Transcultural Racing Lessons

We are each and all Black Lives as small Deaths inside our historical-cultural DNA emergence into full-octave multicultural ecopolitics. In Earth's ecosystem, there can be no ecological entity perceivable as White, or even Light, unless historically emerged as reversing full-radial progenitive Black, dualdark regenesis. For you and yours, did light skin reify from dark political-economic history, to somehow feel toxic shame about our shared evolving multicultural Creation Story? Or, do you know and feel light skin evolving within deeply respected dark rich embryonic Elders of trusted and loved polyculturing healthy glory? Can you see and smell and feel and celebrate Earth's humane rivers of blood all flowing back to Africa, just as our multicultural incarnation merged and melded, molded and re-emerged from more ambivalent MiddleEastern races to and from Promised Lands of ecopolitical health and beauty, bilateral truths of space as time, nondually coarising races of Earth's EcoMedicinal ReGeneration Time. We use trust and mistrust and distrust to speak of thoughts, as we use empathy, co-empathic dissonance, and learned supremacist hatreds, rebuking and reifying, denying empathic feelings to own egocentric political dominance of anemic birthright promise. Trust thoughts grow healthy political flowers from co-empathic feelings, experience, learning, development. But, if empathic health fails to flower trust, then all the rest are negative feelings, experience, learning from dissonance, lack of healthy development. Absence of trust appears, and begins to smell bad, only when positive empathic capacity and will have died, up and outrooted through past injury, chronic stress, lack of rest, underexposure to healthy full-rainbow lights and other positive ecopolitical nutrients. Empathy spawning trust together co-arise as thoughts have historical feelings attached to thoughts projecting power into future therapeutic and toxic relationships, or mistrustful dissonant ambivalent absence thereof. Future relationships extending feelings manifest in shared thoughts, language of transracial ecoconsciousness. We are all Black Lives in UnPromising Lands inside our broader enculturing history stories, integrity of DNA's race-revolving lessons longing to reconnect empathic listen, always voting for dark horse underdog as me and, by extension, my "we". When our Black interior Lives Matter empathically with trust, then all our daily lives and nightly deaths will matter more richly and deeply, healthier wealth.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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