I have read this three times already this AM on various platforms including the new Facebook...LinkedIn.
I have a rather direct answer: Yes...are you?
First let's define what you mean by "conversation".
If, by "conversation" you mean a two-way dialoge where all parties are expected to express concerns, experiences, fears, beliefs and observations without judgement or being called names...let's go. I have a lot to learn and want to do my part to make this a better more inclusive world.
If, by "conversation" you mean me sitting and being lectured to about white privledge, economic privledge, systematic racism and my debt based upon the sins of my great great grandparents (oh wait, they were not slave owners or even on US soil) and why I am in general a seven-way "ist". Then no,
Let me know when you are ready to have the hard conversations.
I have a rather direct answer: Yes...are you?
First let's define what you mean by "conversation".
If, by "conversation" you mean a two-way dialoge where all parties are expected to express concerns, experiences, fears, beliefs and observations without judgement or being called names...let's go. I have a lot to learn and want to do my part to make this a better more inclusive world.
If, by "conversation" you mean me sitting and being lectured to about white privledge, economic privledge, systematic racism and my debt based upon the sins of my great great grandparents (oh wait, they were not slave owners or even on US soil) and why I am in general a seven-way "ist". Then no,
Let me know when you are ready to have the hard conversations.