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How To Be A Citizen

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The Love Trifecta

Valerie Jarrett has this love trifecta. Love triangle? I don't know. It's three types of love that she calls on us to practice. And that's what makes them revolutionary. On one layer, we need to love ourselves. We can train our eyes to look upon strangers and say in our minds, brother, sister, aunt, uncle. Number three, in order to love our opponents, tend the wound. Tending to the wound is not healing them. Only they can do that. Just tending to it allows us to see our opponents as humanized. They've been radicalized by cultures and policies that we together can change. You can be my ally here

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