By The New Yorker — 2019
“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.
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Ruth King guides us in a practice to explore the truth of our interconnectedness.
Ruth King presents five ways we can address racial ignorance and division to help ourselves and our sanghas become whole.
Ruth King-"Something alarming happens when we think or hear the word ‘racism’. Something deep within us is awakened into fear...This activation happens to all of us.” "So, having the intention that you are going to be in this dialog means you’re not going to turn away from it...
Ruth King talks about racism as a heart disease that can be cured. “It requires a transplant, a surgical intervention of mindfulness and heartfulness. To heal the heart, we must understand the mind."
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At the first-ever gathering of Buddhist teachers of black African descent, held at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, two panels of leading Buddhist teachers took questions about what it means to be a black Buddhist in America today.