DMA Anderson on Spoutible

1/8

If you're white and politically aware or active,

and you've not yet proactively stopped to learn how

to reset your engagement with the single, critical, Step #1

of examining and deconstructing your approach to dialogue,

then you are not bringing your best and most necessary self to the game.

04:22 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

2/8

You may be confused or irked or even angry at this point that "the same issues" keep arising here as on other platforms.

You assign said issues to how other people think or behave.

And, simultaneously, you assign a purer level of clarity, communications and intention to yourself.

04:25 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

3/8

That default grace, coupled with an assumption, if not active assertion, of your neutrality, if not better approach, if not actual thought leadership,

in regards to circumstances that don't harm and often, in fact, benefit you,

that you've avoided discussing or been given lifelong space to ignore

04:29 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

4/8

Which is coupled with a culturally enforced mandate to never be told what to do, never be outshined, never be corrected, never be perceived as unkind, and never be made uncomfortable,

without triggering an institutionally escalated corrective measure,

which all will be denied or declared righteous

04:31 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

5/8

is the source of the issue

is what follows you from platform to platform

is

you.

You cannot come to lecture hall, with students and professors who've spent years in academic and lived expertise

Walk to the front

And assume a perceived rightful position at the lectern or even next to the stage

04:33 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

6/8

Stop.

Be still.

Enter quietly and sit in the back so you don't disrupt the work that you just discovered was deeply underway.

Continue your work as you must.

It is not the most important work. Or the least. It is to be re-examined and re-formed in alignment to a greater whole.

04:36 PM - Sep 08, 2023

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

7/8

If you are mad and frustrated and blocking people

And still seeking the platform where you can be safe, and called kind, and feel comfortable, and never have someone dismiss, disagree with, counter or shut down your personal opinion

Consider the folly and even hubris of seeking a world like that

04:38 PM - Sep 08, 2023 (Edited)

DMA Anderson

@planetdma

8/8

In a world that already has granted you so much.

Release the rules that were designed only for you.

Step into this new world so many others have always lived in. Flex new muscles of listening

empathizing

learning

following

supporting

and being just one of many equals. Who disagree and thrive.

04:40 PM - Sep 08, 2023 (Edited)

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