Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity

[Jim Mendell (jim.mendell]

Zev, makes perfect sense to me.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 8:20 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.
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> 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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