Thank you for sharing this! I appreciate your perspective and strongly agree that the root issues need to be called out and addressed. And I have ordered your book and can’t wait to read it! 😊
When I talk about white supremacy in conversation or in poetry with my family, friends, and in my community - I can feel a million and one alarms going off in them and even myself like I am breaking an agreement, pointing out something we have all agreed not to notice, betraying something that says ‘haven’t I been good to you? Don’t you have it good? Why bring up trouble, no one wants to hear anything about that, you don’t know enough, stop talking, get quiet, stay small and get in line’
I am so tired of the intimidation and fear that can be soooo thick and the silence that is so suffocating to spirit and aliveness
THANK YOU for the historical background of affirmative action AND for the empowering truthful message that puts responsibility back in my own two hands and my own one life - keeps me from wasting time on wishing on so and so in the government or so and so in my church or community. What am I ( me) actively, courageously, boldly doing in spite of intimidation and the knowledge i will make a million mistakes on the way, to truly further the cause for true beloved community? Am i (me) following God and His call to love Him with all my everything and ALL others as myself OR am I going to stay trapped in fear of losing others approval ? ... which of course turns out is not love at all for anyone.. not others, not for me, not for God and not even for others who are ok with or will deny the existence of white supremacy their whole lives
Thank you for sharing this! I appreciate your perspective and strongly agree that the root issues need to be called out and addressed. And I have ordered your book and can’t wait to read it! 😊
Thank you so much for listening—and thanks for buying my book—yay!!!! Much appreciated 🎉
When I talk about white supremacy in conversation or in poetry with my family, friends, and in my community - I can feel a million and one alarms going off in them and even myself like I am breaking an agreement, pointing out something we have all agreed not to notice, betraying something that says ‘haven’t I been good to you? Don’t you have it good? Why bring up trouble, no one wants to hear anything about that, you don’t know enough, stop talking, get quiet, stay small and get in line’
I am so tired of the intimidation and fear that can be soooo thick and the silence that is so suffocating to spirit and aliveness
THANK YOU for the historical background of affirmative action AND for the empowering truthful message that puts responsibility back in my own two hands and my own one life - keeps me from wasting time on wishing on so and so in the government or so and so in my church or community. What am I ( me) actively, courageously, boldly doing in spite of intimidation and the knowledge i will make a million mistakes on the way, to truly further the cause for true beloved community? Am i (me) following God and His call to love Him with all my everything and ALL others as myself OR am I going to stay trapped in fear of losing others approval ? ... which of course turns out is not love at all for anyone.. not others, not for me, not for God and not even for others who are ok with or will deny the existence of white supremacy their whole lives
Those conversations with family and friends are the toughest ones. Awkward. Straight up uncomfortable.
Thank you for this 🖤