Wow Macie…every word of your writing today is profound and convicting and TRUTH! I started to copy and paste parts that I wanted to emphasize back, how impactful they read to me…and I was copying the whole thing. I pray and hope continuously for this revelation to impress and infect all people who cannot understand of these things you write about and live through. I am so thankful for how life has unfolded for me, to have you placed in my path. Shalom, Selah, Amen 🙏🏼
Wow - this is an especially powerful & evocative paragraph -
“But in order to do that, White leaders need to come to our table where we sit dangling in serpents of racial injustice, racial inequity, racial trauma and racial terror. They need to get use to feel of the way these snakes slither across our backs. They need to learn how to relax to keep the pythons from strangling us in our sleep.”
Just before I read your post, I found out that last night my grandson’s (mostly white) basketball team went to a fast food restaurant with their black coaches. They were refused service, and the coaches were volleyed with racist slurs by the restaurant manager as to the explanation as to why they were not being served. It was a horrific and eye-opening experience for the team. The kids called 911., and the police showed up, and actually handled it well. The manager is in jail and fired. Those kids have seen the serpent, and I pray that they will never be the same and carry this experience forward as Champion allies.
Immediately before reading this, I was reading latest news about situation in Haiti. God. “Dangling in serpents,” indeed. We NEED. MUST. Have the effing humility and courage to “get used to the feel of the way these snakes slither across our backs.” Damn. I am a decent bug-killer. Spiders are hard, but I deal. Snakes? So so so freaking scared of snakes. I am 53 years old and have never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark., cause, pit of vipers, anyone?
There will be no literal exposure of my self to snakes. Nope. And, I’m going to carry this visceral response of mine and a deepening learning/Knowing of the truth you’re speaking. I’m going to carry it where I can see it- because that’s part of the doing better after learning better.
Amen 🙏
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Wow Macie…every word of your writing today is profound and convicting and TRUTH! I started to copy and paste parts that I wanted to emphasize back, how impactful they read to me…and I was copying the whole thing. I pray and hope continuously for this revelation to impress and infect all people who cannot understand of these things you write about and live through. I am so thankful for how life has unfolded for me, to have you placed in my path. Shalom, Selah, Amen 🙏🏼
Oops..Marcie! Sorry for the misspell ❤️
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This is an amazing powerful metaphor which I hope to use with my (mostly White) congregation--crediting you. Thank you for stating the hard truth.
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 we’re some sure fired snake charmers! This needs to be read in some pulpits this Sunday 🖤
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I hear you, friend. I know I need to DO better. Thank you for your work!
Wow. Just wow.
Wow - this is an especially powerful & evocative paragraph -
“But in order to do that, White leaders need to come to our table where we sit dangling in serpents of racial injustice, racial inequity, racial trauma and racial terror. They need to get use to feel of the way these snakes slither across our backs. They need to learn how to relax to keep the pythons from strangling us in our sleep.”
Just before I read your post, I found out that last night my grandson’s (mostly white) basketball team went to a fast food restaurant with their black coaches. They were refused service, and the coaches were volleyed with racist slurs by the restaurant manager as to the explanation as to why they were not being served. It was a horrific and eye-opening experience for the team. The kids called 911., and the police showed up, and actually handled it well. The manager is in jail and fired. Those kids have seen the serpent, and I pray that they will never be the same and carry this experience forward as Champion allies.
Not to mention a horrific experience for the coaches. But their eyes were already open. 😢
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Amen
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Immediately before reading this, I was reading latest news about situation in Haiti. God. “Dangling in serpents,” indeed. We NEED. MUST. Have the effing humility and courage to “get used to the feel of the way these snakes slither across our backs.” Damn. I am a decent bug-killer. Spiders are hard, but I deal. Snakes? So so so freaking scared of snakes. I am 53 years old and have never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark., cause, pit of vipers, anyone?
There will be no literal exposure of my self to snakes. Nope. And, I’m going to carry this visceral response of mine and a deepening learning/Knowing of the truth you’re speaking. I’m going to carry it where I can see it- because that’s part of the doing better after learning better.
Thank you.
I hate snakes so much, my husband was so shocked that even used a snake as a metaphor!
Still, it is so important to overcome the discomfort of this ESSENTIAL understanding… thank you for the push.
The fact that you hate snakes, Marcie, makes this metaphor all the more powerful.
“the beady reptilian eyes of racism.” What a powerful metaphor.
I wouldn’t want to identify with this, the gross realm. Love, consciousness, beauty...don’t come from here
https://open.substack.com/pub/sinatana/p/identify-yourself_its-required?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
What is “this” what is it that you wouldn’t want to identify with? And what is this link about?