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Debby Irving
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I've read many books about the holocaust though none as complex and interwoven as The Storyteller. As Sage, the twenty-something protagonist, is forced to abandon her lifelong stance of dispassionate distance from her jewish heritage and the holocaus
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“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it’s about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human.”
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“The story emerging for me, however, tells a tale of black and brown people being held down so long that white folks have come to believe they got there on their own. The removal of legal barriers that once separated the races has done little to change the distorted belief system that lives on in the hearts and minds of millions of individuals. At this point, the only thing needed for racism to continue is for good people to do nothing.”
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“I’ve learned that when it comes to race, there’s no such thing as neutral: either I’m intentionally and strategically working against it, or I’m aiding and abetting the system.”
― Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
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“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it’s about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human.”
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
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