We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.– Gerald Sider.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.