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Well-meaning hwyhte folks think that bc they have privilege within the current sociocultural construct that they don't also carry cultural harm, loss & grief.
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but hwyhteness steals from all people regardless of contemporary race constructs, and continuing to ignore the deep wounds in hwyhte lineages is part of the ongoing violence of hwyhteness and what perpetuates violences within families & society.
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I end up talking about ancestor stuff in probably 40-60% of my client sessions and often the conversation is just getting folks to recognize that
(1) the line of ancestors doesn't start with the ones whose names are remembered
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(1) the line of ancestors doesn't start with the ones whose names are remembered
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(2) at some point in history, colonialism & supremacy erased, eroded, or otherwise royally fucked up their ancestral cultural heritages.
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If you think your own ancestral cultural destructions are no big deal or not worth attending to, how the hell are you going to properly comprehend & advocate against the cultural destructions that are ongoing in the present day?
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Have you ever sat with the depth of loss your own lineages have encounters? Having done so, have you then sat with the losses of those stolen into chattel slavery? Those whose children were taken into colonial boarding schools to have the Native beaten out of them?
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Have you considered that the "this is fine" apathetic response when faced with others' centuries of suffering is rooted in your own lineages' centuries of attempting to numb out of cultural pain?
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Have you spent the time to let your own heart break a million times over so that you might better hold others as their hearts break, that you might better support others in their mendings?
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Have you felt the truly profound rage of injustices older than the oldest Roman ruins to a degree that you absolutely must channel that rage towards justice for the present and future?
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Do not let avoidance of grief transform you into someone who cannot maximally perceive others' very real pain. When you reject the reality of your own sufferings, you also remove your capacity to witness & care for others'.
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