Purple Psychology

What are the assumptions of Black masculinity based in? Why is it so easy to judge? How are we goign to change these assumptions? If we change them for America we change them for the world. I mention Toni Morrison's Beloved and Barracoon by Zora Neal Hurston.

How we develop cores - a strong sense of achieving beyond ourselves? How we go through the Jung stages of development to feel good enough to take actions beyond us and for others. How if you have not had the privilege of achieving for yourself you don't feel good enough to be picked by the team for humanity. Those who have achieved need to be mindful of how they address these people who are still on stage 1 of development and make them feel as if they are good enough. I mention John Lewis and the Civil Rights Non-Violence Workshops run by Rev. James Lawson.

How do you expect women to find the confidence to go out and vote after such a demonstration of abuse on national prime time TV? To find their voice to vote against people abusing them at home in the same way?

The legacy of the church in education. We don't read to learn or to find the words to express ourselves.

Gaslighting effects in the election campaign. How to find your truth right now - some simple strategies to help you.

I mention - His Truth Marching On by Jon Meacham and Why I Write by George Orwell. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Stokely Carmichael speaking to the unresolved pain of the African American in 1966. How people fall off the pedestal for me. How John Lewis continued to believe in Gandhi's philosophies of non-violence to the end. Wholeness could change the world.

This episode is about everything from roles, effects of social media, cancel culture, younger voting age, banning books. But most especially why there is a huge generation gap - the lack of compromise.

We need to stop making so many assumptions about what others can see, hear, read and process. We need to stop press pause and match people where they are rather than shouting at them aggressively. But as I once wrote - it's always easier to judge than it is to understand.

I wrote a piece called 'Scales Of Literacy' on drnaosieoreilly dot org What is being literate? How have our expectations changed? Why does this matter? Why do I have such fear around the American Presidental Election? Why do I have a vision for a dance piece to change the world? How will you feeling what others feel change everything? My passion for Black Writers public writing on my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/49099014

How much of what you read and share actually asks you to feel pain? To feel others pain? To sift through your own experiences? To really challenge yourself to add humanness to humanity? My open writing Essays in Awareness (drnaoiseoreilly dot org)