The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success
1. Performance drives success, but when performance is immeasurable, networks determine success.
2. Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.
3. Fitness x Previous Success = Future Success.
4. While team success requires diversity and balance, a single individual will receive credit for the group’s achievements.
5. Success can come at any time as long as we are persistent.
The Enduring Legacy of an Authentic American ‘Giant’
Activism fueled by religion guided Lewis’ life. In later years he worried aloud that some people failed to understand civil rights activism as an extension of faith for many participants in the movement, rooted in stories about Jesus and the words of Gandhi, who was born Hindu and embraced many teachings.
“In my estimation, the civil rights movement was a religious phenomenon. When we’d go out to sit in or go out to march, I felt, and I really believe, there was a force in front of us and a force behind us, ’cause sometimes you didn’t know what to do. You didn’t know what to say, you didn’t know how you were going to make it through the day or through the night. But somehow and some way, you believed — you had faith — that it all was going to be all right,” Lewis told PBS in 2004.
He was a human being who was willing to suffer and to die for his understanding of the Gospel, and how that Gospel found expression in the United States of America of the 20th and 21st centuries.
– Jon Meacham (American Historian)
The way to eliminate Racism is to eliminate Racial categories.
– Teja Arboleda, MEd.
Amen.
To this point in human existence, many People have a limited understanding of Colour.
This includes understanding what Colour is and what Colour is not.
How many Colours are you able to see in each of these three diagrams?
In light of this experience, each of these other topics is important, as well:
Colour is a function of the human visual system.
Colour is not an intrinsic property.
Objects do not have a colour.
Objects give off visible light which appears to be a distinctive colour.
Within the spectrum of visible light Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple (or Violet), Magenta, and Cyan all represent a distinctive colour.
Black, White, and Brown, also, each represent a distinctive colour.
Black is the absence of all visible light.
White is the presence of all visible light.
Brown is a combination of Red, Blue, and Yellow.
Colour is simply a perceived quality of visible light.
Culture is a function of the human social system.
Culture is not an intrinsic property.
Culture is not an object.
Culture does not give off visible light which appears to be a distinctive colour.
Culture is not Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple (or Violet), Magenta, Cyan, Black, White, or Brown.
Culture encompasses social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the Language, knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of People in these groups.
Language is a social construct.
Language is not an intrinsic property.
Language is not an object.
Language does not give off visible light which appears to be a distinctive colour.
Language is not Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple (or Violet), Magenta, Cyan, Black, White, or Brown.
Language is what People use to communicate.
People are a distinctive combination of individuals with a shared Culture.
People are not objects.
People do not give off visible light which appears to be a distinctive colour.
People are not Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple (or Violet), Magenta, or Cyan.
People are not Black.
Black is not a Culture.
Black is not a Language.
Black is simply a distinctive colour.
People are not White.
White is not a Culture.
White is not a Language.
White is simply a distinctive colour.
People are not Brown.
Brown is not a Culture.
Brown is not a Language.
Brown is simply a distinctive colour.
People are not simple. People are complex.
People create culture with their language choices.
If you are going to use words like “black” and “white”, as racial terms, then, it should be the case that both words are capitalized, not just one or the other.
1) According to the Center for the Study of Social Policy …
Recognizing Race in Language: Why We Capitalize “Black” and “White”
(excerpt 1)
In addition to capitalizing Black, CSSP has also made the decision to capitalize White. We will do this when referring to people who are racialized as White in the United States, including those who identify with ethnicities and nationalities that can be traced back to Europe. To not name “White” as a race is, in fact, an anti-Black act which frames Whiteness as both neutral and the standard.
(excerpt 2)
For these reasons, we require the capitalization of “Black” and “White” when referring to racial identity in our work. Establishing a rule, instead of leaving capitalization to the writer as a choice, emphasizes the critical importance and political permanence of these words as real, existing racial identities. And instead of hoping for other White institutions to apply equitable treatment of capitalizing both “Black” and “White,” we’ve taken the step to establish our own style guide, and hope others will follow
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2) According to Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor of philosophy and law at New York University) …
Start where You are.
Use what You have.
Do what You can.
– Gerard Carlse
… life’s miracles (both, little and big) abound.
… become who, and what, you want to be.
– Gerard Carlse
– Barack Obama (2008)
