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Race, Attraction, and Cognitive Dissonance: Part II

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Race, Attraction, and Cognitive Dissonance: Part II

Exposé and Common Tales

Because I believe that the magnitude of this subject matter is so important, please permit me, in this second installment of Race, Attraction, and Cognitive Dissonance, the opportunity to flesh out and create a more contextual and deliberate container, and in the interest of clarity let me begin by sharing a number of passages from one of my favorite life-mirroring essays by Reginald Shepherd where in, at one turn he describes being black and at the next turn, being gay.

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Race, Attraction, and Cognitive Dissonance: Part I

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Race, Attraction, and Cognitive Dissonance: Part I

It surprises me how many of the things we experience growing up stay with us 'till adulthood. Moreover, even after considerable effort in digging into the past to route out the roots of our present emotional, psychological, and spiritual dis-ease, we find that weeds have popped up bound and determined to increase the amount of work we still must do.

This is where I find myself.

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