Glad you’re here you curious adventurers. We’re tackling a delicate topic this week: skin color. The value of elevating curiosity will be clear.

When thinking about the color of your skin, what’s the right amount?

What are you missing when you ignore impact to acknowledge intent? What are you missing when you ignore intent to only acknowledge impact? What’s more important, intent or impact?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

What’s more important to you? What you know…or how you think?

Do you say you value how you think more than you value what you know? How much time to you set aside for thinking, developing how you think?

This week’s Curiosity Bite:

How often do you think about the color of your skin?

More than you have in the past? Less? What’s the right amount of time to devote to thinking about it? Is it a luxury to decide?

In this episode…Curious Questions asked and answered…

Is thinking about the color of your skin the same as thinking about race? Ethnicity? Nationality? Religion?

Should ignorance be an excuse?

How do you determine what offends you? What should offend you?

How do you think about white privilege? How can you think about white privilege? Should you think about it?

What’s more important, intent or impact?

How do you think about white privilege and class?

What does awareness of privilege mean?

What’s the right amount to think about the color of other’s skin?

What’s the opposite of white privilege?

How important is it to recognize that different skin colors have different privileges?

Finally!

References

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. It’s a white privilege checklist.

Identity and Honesty (aka The Sam Harris – Ezra Klein debate)

Tru-Colour Bandages (in case you’re tired of bandages that only match one skin-tone shade)

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