Anyway, suddenly I saw the link to your recent interview, and opened it. Enjoyed your thoughts very much, especially the piece about sticking around to connect with others, no matter what your initial impressions based on enculturation. And that the only way we’re gonna dismantle racism is person-to-person. That’s happening now in the world, slowly but surely. How many more generations will it take?

Reminds me of Bernice Johnson Reagon a generation ago, generating that “little barred room” meme about our attachments to community, and instructing us to link up with the folks who are always running from one room to another instead of staying put in their identity zones. Or, as she put it most succinctly, “There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.”

Here’s to opposable thumbs, and curiosity….

Which reminds me (on an extremely silly sidenote), do google “cats with thumbs” when you have 60 seconds. It’s not TED.com but it *is* brilliant — featuring CGI, The Art of War, and Tim Curry’s voice — need I say more?

(Let’s just hope that real cats would be more conducive to your method of crossing the interspecies divide…. :~)

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