Listen, Learn, Practice
I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled programming on Friday but it feels out of touch to talk about celebrating the small things in our community when so many parts of our larger communities are in crisis. I’m not going to do a both sides thing here, but come out and say it. Our system of law enforcement is broken and like all broken systems, the people who bear the burden are racial minorities, the poor, and those who have been disenfranchised through our penal system. I can do so very little to fix that but I want to use this space, as humble as it is, to share voices that have graciously given their time to show us the path to a different way of doing things. So here they are:
Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race
Seeing White Podcast Series
http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
Listen, learn, ask questions, practice vulnerability, practice compassion (especially the part about understanding before acting), practice making racial justice a habit. It’s tempting to just want to pursue self care right now, to shut it all off and I would encourage you to get your bucket filled, but always, always remember we practice self-care so that we have what it takes to get out into the world and do what needs doing.
Take care of yourself and others.
