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Upwards and onwards.. #wellnessjourney #fitness #exercise #cardio #fitbit
I usually don’t hit the gym on the weekends but I try to find something fun to do each day to stay physically active. Sometimes that just means taking a long walk.. today it meant playing tennis 🎾 with @keipetersen! And this makes over three weeks of getting at least 10,000 steps every single day! Proud of myself for the progress I’m making on my #wellnessjourney 🍃☀️🤸🏽‍♂️
Love seeing folks learning from #howtobelessstupidaboutrace! And what a gorgeous post! @get_repost ・・・ This book. THIS BOOK. I basically underlined/asterisked/hearted and angry-faced/DAMNed/margin-scribbled all over every single page. And now I have to pick just a couple quotes to make you want to read it. READ IT, OKAY? // First page. “How could the same country that voted twice for an Ivy League-educated black president end up electing an overt racist who can barely string together two coherent sentences?” (1) GREAT QUESTION. // Second page. “Everyone has an opinion about race, but 99 percent of the population has never studied it. And even many textbooks that ‘talk about race’ are filled with lies, inaccuracies, and alternative facts. With so much racial ignorance in the world, how will we ever find our way to that glorious mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. glimpsed right before a white racist killed him?” (2) HOLY. // “Why are so many people so incredibly confused and misinformed about race? It’s the white supremacy, stupid!” (2) BOOM. // Third page. “Drawing from my own experience as an educator—and as someone who continually confronts my own racial ignorance—I’ll also share some concrete steps that you (as well as your racist friends, ignorant family members, and clueless coworkers) can take to become less stupid about race and better equipped to detect and dismantle racial oppression. While I don’t personally believe in postracial utopias, and I don’t put a lot of faith in reaching glorious mountaintops, I know for sure that the very first step in challenging racism is having a clear understanding of what it actually is.” (3) // I didn’t even share half of what I underlined on the first 3 pages, and THERE ARE 226 MORE. // “Minorities like me who ‘make it’ in predominantly white settings are viewed and treated like unicorns—aberrations from the white (male) supremacist rule.” (7) UGH. // See my comments/stories for tons more quotes (from the FIRST CHAPTER ALONE). And then BUY THE BOOK POSTHASTE. (I think this is the first time I’ve ever used the word posthaste on Instagram.) It is so so so important and funny and brilliant and good. #Pride
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