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Healed By People With Every Reason to Hate Him | NYC

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0:00A: responsibility of anybody who has the kind of privilege that I’ve been born into to take that seriously and to understand themselves as a global citizen and to -- and it also helps a lot. I worked in a Native band for 8 years. So, you know, of all the people who have a reason to be afraid of people that look like me, it’s those people I was working with. But the literal opposite of that was so transformational to me to see how accepting and beautiful and -- and I was coming to fix their computers and they didn’t care about that at all. They cared only about me. Yeah,

0:38B: yeah, yeah.

0:38A: It was unbelievable to me. And I was just like, how can it be that there’s a culture out there that exists that has more reason than anybody else to hate somebody in my

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