[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: How do we build on agreement? [Was Why philosophy?]

>>Can we learn how to give each other the backs of our hands without slaps in the face? How could we go about that? 



No backhands without palms of hands.
When Mike replied to my incendiary post with, "I cannot imagine forgiving white people. Any white person, even me," I remember that he had previously written, "Our values of human dignity and equal rights, though frequently violated, are of the highest aspirations. I want this country to prosper and succeed according to those values."
He reads like one hand washing the other, which is an honest thing. 

It's also good to remember

  that I am falling
  That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be 
  Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

[from “When You Go Away” -WS Merwin]



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