After reading this week's assignment from Mary's book I went to Share My World's website. I need to be reminded again and again how my privledge shelters and insulates me from oppression. I remember driving down a street and seeing only African American people and feeling scared. Why did I feel threatened? Why does prejudice rear it's ugly head within me, combining with the power of my privledge resulting in racisim that is oppressive and destructive? Where does redemption lie? It seems the more I hear the stories of people victimized by oppression, the more the scales fall from my eyes of my own complicit participation.
http://www.sharemyworld.net/
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