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The C.O.W.S. The Tacky Racism of Yoga Teacher Training (Walt Whitman, Nelson Mandela)
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The Context of White Supremacy host Gus T. Renegade shares a few more details from his odyssey of yoga teacher training. Most recently, we were schedule to discuss the chakras of the body and how these energy clusters relate to the practice of yoga. Our manual featured detailed information about each chakra with random quotes to offer further thought. One of the quotes featured 19th century literary hero, Walt Whitman. A different quote was cribbed from Jack London, also a beloved White U.S. author. Unsurprisingly, both writers expressed overtly White Supremacist views and flagrantly disparaged black people. Black self respect would not allow Gus to sit by idly without parting my lips. Somehow, after all this, Whites invoked the name of South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. #WhitesDontLoveMandela
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The Context of White Supremacy host Gus T. Renegade shares a few more details from his odyssey of yoga teacher training. Most recently, we were schedule to discuss the chakras of the body and how these energy clusters relate to the practice of yoga. Our manual featured detailed information about each chakra with random quotes to offer further thought. One of the quotes featured 19th century literary hero, Walt Whitman. A different quote was cribbed from Jack London, also a beloved White U.S. author. Unsurprisingly, both writers expressed overtly White Supremacist views and flagrantly disparaged black people. Black self respect would not allow Gus to sit by idly without parting my lips. Somehow, after all this, Whites invoked the name of South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. #WhitesDontLoveMandela
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