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How to Be White Right Now
Listen. Take responsibility. Let yourself be changed.
The current cry for racial justice sweeping our world is a phenomenon emerging from generations of pain, alienation, betrayal, cruelty, and the unconscious perpetration of power (to name just a few antecedents).
One of the most beautiful things about the human spirit is that it carries an unalterable divine knowing of its own sovereignty. So when humans create systems that delineate “haves” and “have-nots,” “more-thans” and “less thans,” something — that unalterable knowing within — rises up to declare the absolute preciousness of their own personhood.
This rising up takes courage and vulnerability; it is a radical declaration of self worth.
We are in a time where we have the privilege (and yes, I am using that word deliberately) to experience this rising of the human spirit on a global scale. No longer relegated to denuded, neatly-packaged theoretical constructs like “cultural competency” that you may encounter in a professional development meeting or a grad school classroom, we’re seeing a move toward universally-recognized humanity literally spill onto the streets. Unbound, in many ways unarticulated, the cry is visceral, primal, powerful. It says, “we are here, we are human, we are equal, and we demand to be heard.” This ringing cry is permeating our spirits as well…
