Niceness is often filled with falseness鈥攊t is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. 鈥淏e nice!鈥� is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone鈥� it鈥檚 not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.