102. Nice Is Not Kind: What the Difference Means for Antiracism
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The episode discusses the critical distinction between niceness and kindness in the context of antiracism and racial equity work.
Most of us have been taught that being nice is a good thing. In racial equity work, it might be the very thing standing in the way. Today, we're making a distinction that many get wrong: niceness and kindness are not the same thing. Niceness keeps the peace. Kindness pursues justice and in antiracism and DEI work, choosing one over the other has real consequences for real people. Dr King wrote about this very issue in his Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963. He had a name for the people who a...
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