Is it also tied in with, I use the word
hesitantly, but altruism? You're doing
something for your community, you're
doing something in a higher level and
serving a higher purpose?
While I do believe in the concept of altruism and
doing this for the benefit of the
community I do think it closely -
that word to me has a lot of like close
connections to charity work, which I
would want to like step away from, and
it's much more about justice and that
means like creating an equitable world
for the communities that we are working with.
I couldn't agree with Andrea more. For me like when I think of
the broad mission of racial justice and
racial equity I realize
I have a personal stake in this as well. I
can't tell you the amount of times I've
walked into a store as an African
American and had to honestly take
my hood off, take my hands out of my
pockets just to stop other people from
having the the mere thought that I could
be a thief.
It's a tragedy that
I even have to think like that or really
anybody has to even think like that.
I really do believe in a world, an
equitable world in which people are
really viewed by the content of their
characters and and nothing else.
But in order to get to that work this is, you
know, it just takes people like us to
go through the hard bureaucracy and make
it happen.
