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America’s thorniest question: How do we bridge differences and find connections? Thoughts and questions from Florida      

America’s thorniest question: How do we bridge differences and find connections? Thoughts and questions from Florida      

Across the country, there has been blowback against initiatives focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Florida is one of the states taking a strong policy and governing approach against these initiatives.  Governor Ron DeSantis, with his now unsuccessful bid for the US Presidency, has initiated policies that are oppressive to people of color and the LGBTQ community. And ultimately all of us as state residents.

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Going Deeper with Black History Learning

Going Deeper with Black History Learning

This month I am exploring ways to pay attention to Black History. Everyone’s history is everyone’s history if we are all one and equal. Given the difficulty we have had learning accurate Black History, being intentional for a month (or a lifetime) about learning is essential to deepening understanding and advancing equity.

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Black History Month – More Important than Ever

Black History Month – More Important than Ever

February and Black History Month have arrived. Given the polarized condition of race relations in America, paying attention to the gifts and opportunities that this annual celebration feels more important than ever to me. The next four posts will focus on some aspects of learning and understanding Black History, and an exploration of what we individually and collectively might learn and do to advance “liberty and justice for all.”

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Racial equity and the early A.A. experience – “justice for all”?

Racial equity and the early A.A. experience – “justice for all”?

Last week’s post celebrated the wedding anniversary of Bill and Lois Wilson, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (Bill) and Al-Anon Family Groups (Lois). We looked at their life and legacy from the point of view of our national aspirations of “liberty and justice for all”. We explored how many people today are free from the hell of alcohol, drugs, and other addictions because of the Twelve Step movement the Wilsons and others pioneered.

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The Shadow-side of Assimilation

The Shadow-side of Assimilation

TJ Klune writes in “The House in the Cerulean Sea” about magical children who are segregated from society because their differences are seen as dangerous and in need of regulation and prescribed assimilation. Thomas Page McBee writes in Amateur, a memoir of his journey as a transgender male: “It is not easy to face the long shadow of assimilation in the United States, which is as old as the nation itself.  It is so much a part of our national history to pretend to be what we are not in our striving that many of us no longer see what we have lost.”

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About Tom Adams

Tom AdamsTom Adams writes and speaks on topics vital to the intersection of our personal lives with our community and global lives. He has for decades been engaged in and written about nonprofit leadership and transitions, spirituality and spiritual growth, how we each contribute to a more just and equitable world and recovery from addictions and the Twelve Step recovery movement.