Awa, Haru :) (Where I come from, that is a greeting hello.)
Alice Walker (an activist and the author of Anything We Love Can Be Saved, which I've been reading) talks about standing vigil outside a police station for some of her friends who were wrongly arrested in the sixties... She describes how angry and hostile she was when a white boy who had been trying to ally with their cause came along, whistling a revolutionary gospel hymn. But then without saying anything he took up a place standing alongside her, and she realized she was grateful. Merely his white male presence was enough to offer her physical protection from any kind of brutality the cops might have thought of inflicting on her black teenage self.
I suppose that is to say that there is a place for everybody in these causes. If the people in the support group could not see past your kin being a member of a multiple system, in order to treat them with empathy for the real reason they had sought out a support group, then they are indeed acting with prejudice.
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Date: 2011-06-14 05:47 pm (UTC)(Where I come from, that is a greeting hello.)
Alice Walker (an activist and the author of Anything We Love Can Be Saved, which I've been reading) talks about standing vigil outside a police station for some of her friends who were wrongly arrested in the sixties... She describes how angry and hostile she was when a white boy who had been trying to ally with their cause came along, whistling a revolutionary gospel hymn. But then without saying anything he took up a place standing alongside her, and she realized she was grateful. Merely his white male presence was enough to offer her physical protection from any kind of brutality the cops might have thought of inflicting on her black teenage self.
I suppose that is to say that there is a place for everybody in these causes. If the people in the support group could not see past your kin being a member of a multiple system, in order to treat them with empathy for the real reason they had sought out a support group, then they are indeed acting with prejudice.