{"id":18464,"date":"2022-08-01T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=18464"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:02:24","slug":"racism-labels-of-assumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/racism-labels-of-assumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism: Labels of Assumption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Racism isn’t the real problem, labels are. Don’t get me wrong, racism is a very real problem. I think we all need to practice anti-racism daily. But, that means finding the causes<\/em> of racism, and effecting changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because racism is more than just learned hatred. It’s about how we think. How we form our subjective opinions about the things we experience around us. That’s what needs to change. Because, one of our biggest problems is that, for some reason, we have the need to lump everything into a group of similar things, and then put a label on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we label something, all objectivity goes out the window. Find an unlabeled jar of green, leafy material in your kitchen cupboard…you might draw the subjective opinion that it’s Oregano. Someone else might start looking for a bong to stuff it in. If there’s a label on it, your opinion doesn’t matter any more. Which is fine, until you open that mislabeled jar, and you smoke yourself into a huge headache instead of making spaghetti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Objective thinking means overcoming the impulse to label everything, and instead letting everything label itself via discovery. Asking extra questions, rather than assuming the answers, based on labels that may or may not be fact. Observation, rather than intervention. Considering infinite possibilities of our futures, rather than just using past experiences to guide our present actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective thinking means that everyone gets the benefit of the doubt. Each person we meet becomes an opportunity to grow, rather than someone you can trust, or someone you should fear. Using our subjective opinions about events from our past should inform us in the present, but not control how we see unfamiliar experiences and new people in our lives.
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Because a lot of times, we’ve got a mislabeled jar in the cupboard, and before making purple kush pizza for the family, maybe we should open the jar and give it a sniff. ~jg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Gray | Conjurer of Bytes, Notes & Words. Seeker of Truth, Peace, & Harmony. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racism isn’t the real problem, labels are. Don’t get me wrong, racism is a very real problem. I think we all need to practice anti-racism daily. But, that means finding the causes of racism, and effecting changes. Because racism is more than just learned hatred. It’s about how we think. 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