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I want to do a post on white privilege
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but I’m white
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I need to talk less have the mic
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microphone a megaphone less I want to
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talk about being caught in a rut not
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having a good answer when you’re
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standing in line at the supermarket and
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you bump into a friend and they say so
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what are you up to these days I want to
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talk about Aleppo I want to talk about
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the fact that twice in the last 24 hours
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I have come upon public spaces in
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Boulder where giant cottonwoods have
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just been cut down because developers
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and development companies feel like they
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own the land so they own the trees and
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instead I wind up just kind of stuck in
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myself saying well I’ll post something
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now shut up you shouldn’t post anything
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you know you don’t have anything to say
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about Aleppo what are you gonna say
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about it help do something we’re gonna
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say about white privilege do something
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what are you gonna say about cottonwoods
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we’re just going to say about depression
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what are you gonna say about not having
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anything and having any way to fix the
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problems in the world and it’s like here
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we are we’re all living in this
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individual trance is individuality
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trance where our only options are to
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really become more present to train
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ourselves to have better tools become
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more valuable to people around us and
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yet all the while the system that we sit
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inside of
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is screaming with all these symptoms
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telling us that it’s not working and is
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falling apart
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we got to speak out even if we don’t
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have the answers we have to empower each
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other speaking out and being willing to
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get feedback speaking out and being
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willing to be wrong speaking out and
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being willing to be shouted down for
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being arrogant or ignorant or have blind
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spots it’s better than just believing
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the [ __ ] subtle [ __ ] narrative
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which is play nice play with the rules
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and if you don’t have anything to say
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that can fix the thing shut up it’s just
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it’s [ __ ]
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more of us need to be standing up and
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asking how are the people how are the
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government’s how are the leaders how are
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the trees how are the rivers how are the
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fish how are the crops
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how are we to others hearts how are the
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weather patterns and we need to put more
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energy and effort and faith you know in
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our voices and in each other because I
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believe that that we’re gonna choke this
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system down from beneath like vines that
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are gonna grow up around it and bring it
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down into the soil but it’ll choke us
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out if we don’t stand up and say
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something even if we’re wrong
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