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One Love — And The Blessings Manifested If All Mankind Lived By It

Bob Marley did not sing “One Love” as a wish.

He sang it as a declaration.

Not of what the world was. Of what the world could be — and what it already was, in the spaces where people chose each other across every line that divided them.

One Love.

Two words that contain an entire philosophy of human existence.

This article is about what those two words actually mean. What they require. What they produce. And what actually happens — in the body, in the community, in the world — when human beings choose to live by them.

When We Eat — We All Eat

This is not about individual hustle.

Individual hustle is real. Individual hustle matters.

But individual hustle alone was never designed to get us where we need to go. And deep down — most of us already know that. We have watched people work themselves to exhaustion and still not get ahead. We have watched individual success walk out the neighborhood door and never come back. We have watched the money leave before it had a chance to do anything.

The Enemy Within — Understanding Internalized Racism and the Long Walk Back to Yourself

You did not come into this world believing you were less than.

You were not born thinking your hair was wrong. You were not born preferring one shade of skin over another. You were not born believing that people who looked like you were dangerous or less capable or somehow not quite enough.

That was taught.

And anything that was taught can be unlearned.

What Internalized Racism Actually Is

Internalized racism is the process by which people targeted by racism come to believe, accept, and sometimes act on the negative messages a racist society sends about their own racial group.