"What happened to George Floyd is reprehensible. "I have racism in me - it's impossible for me not to have it in me even as I actively work to unlearn what I have learned and reject what I don't even consciously know is there." "If you're white in America, there's a good chance you were raised to be a racist whether you know it or not," Rachel went on to say. America became an expert at racism 350 times over."
that means that America had 350 x 10,000 hour sets. Look at that through the lens of '10,000 hours required to be an expert'. 3,504,000 hours of white people believing that black people were property. "Even if you pretend that racism ended with the civil rights movement back in the late '60s (which we know it did not) that's still 400 years, or 3,504,000 hours of practicing and accepting slavery. "Brit taught me (watch her Ted talk in my bio) to see the history of America through the lens of how long its citizens actively practiced slavery. Rachel then invoked her best friend Brit Barron, who is the author of "Worth It" and a DEI speaker, in the has taught me a lot of things but the greatest gift she has given me has been holding a mirror up to my privilege," Rachel wrote. But, if you are a white American, racism is built into your being."
"I know we cling to the belief that 'I'm not racist' or 'I don't see color' because you honestly, probably don't realize you do.
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"I am also a product of the garden I was grown in - only instead of a certain soil composition, I was raised in a country that taught me through osmosis that different skin tones suggested different values," she wrote. "Were they grown in another place or by another gardener they would be different, but how they were grown is in the makeup of what they are. The intense heat of a Texas spring and the fact that I don't water them as often as I should, means these tomatoes are unique to their environment," she wrote. Rachel addressed the protests of 2020 on compared tomatoes growing in a certain environment to racism developing in Americans in her Instagram post.
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