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Valerie Beltrán, MA, MFT

3470 Mount Diablo Boulevard
Lafayette, CA, 94549
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Valerie Beltrán Psychotherapy, specializing in trauma therapy (EMDR), couples therapy (including poly couples), and child/adolescent therapy; with offices in Lafayette, CA and Danville, CA. Free consultations and sliding scale. Accepts some insurance.

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I admit I have racist moments, and you should too. A letter to other well-intentioned White progressives

June 14, 2020 Valerie Beltran
Photo by Mike Von @thevoncomplex

Photo by Mike Von @thevoncomplex

These progressive White people can be the most harmful in perpetuating racism because they think they’re done doing their work. They think they get it, that they’re the choir to whom anti-racist people are preaching, and instead of searching themselves for micro-aggressions they unintentionally commit, they use their already-uplifted voices to showcase how ‘woke’ they are.

I can definitely be one of these progressive White people. I remember the moment I epitomized this idea:

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In anti-racism Tags mental health, development, introspection, self-improvement, anti-racism, blacklivesmatter, protests
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