Randall Kennedy
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
is to say to people, we understand that your feelings are really hurt and we're gonna do all that we can to avoid this symbolic action, maybe this word or maybe this symbol.
We're gonna do all that we can to suppress it so that we can have a more loving universe.
I doubt that that's the way to do it.
I think a better way to do it would be to fully educate people, including educate people such that โ you see that over there?
That is the uniform of the Ku Klux Klan.
I want you to be educated about the uniform of the Ku Klux Klan so that you can look at the uniform of the Ku Klux Klan and know what it's about.
You're not terrorized by it.
You're not immediately, you don't see it and sink to your knees and start wailing and crying.
You don't see it and say, I'm traumatized.
No, you don't do any of that.
You see it.
You understand it.
If somebody asks you about it, you're fully prepared to talk about it.
It seems to me that that attitude, that poise, that strength, that knowledge would be a better way of equipping us
To have a more loving world.
And by the way, just so, you know, I would say that about the swastika.
I would say it about the infamous N-word.
I would say it about all of the things that we're talking about.
It would be better for people to be educated so that they are not traumatized.
Not at all.