A poetic monologue about a father's fear and the rites of passage taken on by black youth emerging into a fraught world.
Tag: racial being
Imagine That Our Only Job is to Mirror Each Other’s Goodness
Ruth King is a writer and Buddhist teacher who focuses on working with racial identity in learning meditation and using the tools of spiritual practice to examine one's own racial being. King combines western psychology with eastern philosophy and indigenous wisdom to coach her students in becoming more aware of their underlying areas of fear and vulnerability as well as the key points of their own rigidity.