Ntale is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and activist from South London and recently started working for the Mental Health Foundation.
Kindness isn’t a concept I thought a lot about as a young man. Kindness was often portrayed amongst my peers as weakness and wasn’t something that would protect you in the face of threat.
Kindness wouldn’t save your phone at knifepoint, nor would it save your reputation in a fistfight. Kindness was a liability and a liability could get you hurt – even killed.
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