Activist, author Chloé Valdary is a diversity and anti-racism trainer with a refreshingly loving approach. This week, on Valentine's Day, I am encouraging us to approach our ensembles, our classes, our colleagues and our neighbors with Agape.
In music education, we have a very popular, and important euphemism: "I want my students to see themselves in the music, or in the ensembles I have them watch" based on the finding people who look like them. And this representation does matter! But what I don't hear enough is, "I want my students to learn to see themselves in everyone, and in ALL of the music we learn." This introspective approach is echoed in Chloé's fascinating brand of Anti-Racism.
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
James Baldwin
One of the core premises that Chloé likes to communicate is that if you can't apply the principle James Baldwin describes here to YOURSELF, then it will not have any value in healing the rifts between us. If you see it only as a principle that applies to others, we will never enter important conversations as equals. She trains, teaches and advocates for a type of conversation about diversity in schools, groups and organizations that starts with introspection and search for our common humanity.
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