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You can usually depend on life guru Iyanla Vanzant to bring some serious healing whether she’s throwing a bunch of folks in a house to discuss their “daddy issues” or she’s spreading the positivity on Twitter. But she may have taken the self-help a tad bit too far when a series of what many are calling “insensitive” tweets. The tweets which the author posted Saturday seem to imply that suffering from injustices like homophobia and sexism were simply a matter of mindset. In other words, racism can’t hurt you if you remain positive and don’t allow it to:
https://twitter.com/IyanlaVanzant/status/827894510134841345
https://twitter.com/IyanlaVanzant/status/827924692841308164
Well of course the internet didn’t hesitate to tell Mother Vanzant that she may want to quit sipping the peace and love punch and get real about what’s happening in the world:
https://twitter.com/4truthnjustiz/status/827904875199500290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/JennMJack/status/827929636348821505
https://twitter.com/McBlaze718/status/827912479737053184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/bluekeyblade/status/827909825027678209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I’m willing to guess Iyanla wanted to give folks some sense of power in a world where it seems like the rules apply less and less with every executive order. But some things simply can’t be prayed away and just not believing in xenophobia didn’t help immigrants get into the country to be able to work, learn and live in a country that they had gone through the proper measures to be allowed entry to. Not believing in injustice won’t help people with pre-existing conditions pay for their medical care in the event that they cannot access health insurance coverage.
Sorry beloved, but we’re going to need more than some breathing exercises or boulders in a backpack to fight against the injustices were up against. Fighting against homophobia, xenophobia and sexism is actually going to require many of us to “do the work.”
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