Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity

[Kathleen Lowry (kathleenlowrylpcclmft]

Zen, Then why did you use it? It was offensive to me too. An apology is 
definitely in order. Kathleen 

> On Feb 22, 2023, at 7:20 AM, Zev Paiss <zevpaiss [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Morning Everyone,
> Wow this has been an amazing discussion. I deeply appreciate all the various 
> comments and have been surprised by the diversity of responses. I even 
> received a private message from a contributor asking me to stop posting and 
> apologize for what I have said.
> 
> I am curious why anyone would assume I think all blacks speak any certain 
> way. The gentleman I referred to was sharing how his language changed when he 
> went back to his childhood neighborhood and began to interact with old 
> friends who still live there. His point was that his culture includes a 
> language that many others would feel offensive. When I asked him why his 
> friends uses the dreaded “n” word, he shared that they are reclaiming it so 
> it can not be used against them which was a mind bender for me but made 
> perfect sense in that context. He reiterated that it was not okay for me as a 
> white man to use that word unless I had grown up with these folks.
> 
> To be clear I have no intention of allowing any of this group to block my 
> participation as that would only stifle the conversation.
> 
> Keep up the excellent, uncomfortable and complex discussion!
> 
> Zev Paiss
> Nomad Cohousing, Founding Member
> Boulder, CO
> 720-232-3826
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