From the mind of critic: “If we’re well known for standing up for what we believe in, do we think we have to keep a certain persona to deem ourselves worthy of their praise? If we’re standing up for rights for our culture, ethnicity or gender, and we mix and mingle with another culture, ehtinicity or gender, do we feel like we’re letting our people down by not giving them a chance? Or do we understand the intracasies of the human psyche, and gravitate toward consciously positive and justice filled people, realizing “our people” might only be upset about it, because they haven’t had black and white enough truth to prove that some “others” might help “them?” We as humans don’t believe monolithically, we believe a million different things for a million different reasons. When we drill deeper within our ethnicity culture, religion or movement, none of us believe the same either. If we find ourselves disagreeing with somebody within our group for associating with another group, are we doing it out of pride for our people? Or because we think our people are better than other people? Once we realize that equal rights means being included in the mainstream, we’ll see that living what we preach is the reason why we preach, not just to be heard. We should all stand up for what we believe in. The moment we put our ideas into practice how we think they should be applied, is the moment we start evolving. We think to talk, and talk to act. We mustn’t let others who haven’t made that connection bring us down.” 🙂