In her interview with Krista Tippett, civil rights icon Ruby Sales invites us to look into the collective consciousness of where we hurt. Sales "unsettles some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, and names a "spiritual crisis of white America" as a calling of this time." We discuss how historical shame in the white community has designed attitudes of denial and minimization towards the minority experience–and how wounds cannot heal until they cease being touched.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

Where Does It Hurt? with Ruby Sales (Mp3 interview and Transcripts) – Krista Tippet

Where Does it Hurt?: Overcoming the Pain of White Supremacy with Ruby Sales – The Roundtable

Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC™) – IDC describes a set of knowledge/attitude/skill sets or orientations toward cultural difference and commonality that are arrayed along a continuum from the more monocultural mindsets of Denial and Polarization through the transitional orientation of Minimization to the intercultural or global mindsets of Acceptance and Adaptation.

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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