I’ve sat here for hours trying to form words around what is happening in our world, in our country and in our cities. I don’t know how to express the pain I feel.
I believe in the divinity of all life. I believe that humanity is all one. The best of us is just as good and culpable as the worst of us.
Within this dark time where we are being manipulated by fear we have to find love. The fault lies with us. We can no longer avoid responsibility for the oppression that we have perpetrated. We can no longer shrug off the guilt of what our ancestors have done. We, as white people, have a duty to acknowledge our complicity in systems of oppression from which we’ve benefitted.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
-Martin Luther King, 1958
In turn, we must realize that we are all part of the collective consciousness reaching for resolution. This resolution HAS to be collaborative. We can no longer allow the systems of power to separate and divide us. Our lived experiences are different, but we are all tasked with; afforded a wonderful opportunity, right now, to create a world that works for ALL of us.
When we devalue human life to the point where we become desensitized to the senseless loss of life. When we value property and goods more than the loss of human life, that cannot be replaced, we are broken. We are broken universally, collectively, as a whole. We are broken.
The only way through this is in LOVE. We must dig deep within to find our own divine nature. It’s our responsibility to reconcile the hurt we’ve caused, knowingly and unknowingly. It’s our responsibility to find the common good, our common humanity so that we are able to heal that which we’ve been part of. Do your inner work. While doing your inner work, do the outer work with love, compassion and hope that we can build, together, that which we want to see in the world.