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It took me 30+ years of willful negligence before I admitted that I was racist... which prompted a long and painful journey of reckoning with my addiction to whiteness and recovering my humanity.
A white friend once said to me “but HOW could we have known?” She was referring to how racism has been invisibilized by the dominant culture, mass media, and our education system. 🫣 But how could we have not known?
For those of us who have a college education, or have access to books and google, or have the freedom to travel and move in the world - HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY “NOT KNOW”?
Or did we know and choose to forget?
Knowing meant, we white people, taking responsibility for how we’ve been complicit, how we’ve allowed whiteness to reign. Knowing meant reckoning with how we’ve benefitted from such a horrific and harmful system. And knowing compels us to do the work.
“The work” I’m referring to here is healing ourselves and the systems/culture we are a part of.
On an inner level, it is how we become self-aware about how we're located in systems of domination, how we’ve been hooked and shaped by its forces to be “a good” soldier, to excavate and detox the limiting beliefs and behaviors that are alive in me and to recover who I am behind all of this so that I can play my part in healing the world that we are a part of. And the outer practice is confronting everything in the way of our collective thriving and doing our part to dismantle systems of separation and supremacy and build a future that works for everyone.
This month we are creating space for practice and healing. Check out what's coming up!
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