5/10/2023 0 Comments I will do your homeworkI used to think my personal energy being poured out repeatedly was sacrificial love, asked of me as a Christ follower. In return for these majorly taxing emotional lifts, I receive tentative, well-intentioned invitations to have more conversations, where I make the case for my humanity and that of other black and brown people all over again. I have sugarcoated injustice and minimized pain to coax empathy from skeptical souls. I also attempt to treat oppression as an abstract concept that at best is a pesky reminder of your ancestor’s mistakes, and at worst is something that only really bad people perpetuate in the dark corners of the internet. I imitate your removed sense of racism’s power. ![]() ![]() I present this information in a measured tone, with little emotion, in a way that would not betray that I am deeply, personally affected by racism. In these draining interactions, I pour out informed, nuanced knowledge gleaned from merely existing in a country hostile to my dark skin, curvy edges, and kinky hair. The AskĪs a black woman, I will no longer meet up for coffee, dinner, walks, or some other personal interaction where I do the heavy lifting of explaining to you why the societal cancer that is racism, that is as old as the society itself, is bad. It is wholly unfair to both be a consistent victim of racism and a primary person responsible for its dismantling. It has taken me many hours of one-on-one conversations, thousands of words spilled out on social media, and even official church time spent co-leading a racial reconciliation bible study to come to the conclusion: I come to you saying that we have a problem and I am no longer willing to be the catalyst for the solution. ![]() Dear white friend, associate, and churchgoer ,
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