Shoot Promos on Race, Class, Gender, Etc

"Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil." - Loreena McKennitt It was Saturday afternoon during our 30 minute lunch break and I only had a few minutes left to call my group leader James that I wouldn't be able to come in on Monday evening. Volunteering or "assisting" as they like to call it, for the Landmark Power to Create course was not my idea. But Jules suggested this would be the best way to attend and listen in on the course without paying for the registration fee. At this point in time I was driving for Lyft and freelancing on the side and struggling mightily to keep up with my bills. So the reasoning made sense to me. What I hadn't anticipated was that assisting would mean arriving two hours before the course began at 9am to help set up and also staying behind an hour past 11pm to help clean up and prepare for the next day. My back was killing me and I was physically exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do after working 16...

I have my opinion, you have yours. Why are you taking this so personal? Can't we agree to disagree? With the 2020 Election less than 50 days away, those might be common phrases we hear in social circles whenever politics is discussed. For many it's a sign of maturity and objectivity to discuss politics and be able to "agree to disagree". I used to believe the same. I was wrong. "Objectivity" is not a sign of maturity or intelligence. No one can actually be objective. To have an opinion and beliefs are by very nature subjective. "Objectivity" is how we try to debate and argue topics, playing "devil's advocate" and distancing ourselves from the stances we may take.  But in reality it's a sign of moral cowardice, it's a sign of privilege. It's white privilege. It's male privilege. It's natural born citizen privilege. It's Protestant privilege. It's heterosexual privilege. Etc, etc. Let me preface this by sayin...