What’s taking place across our country is a culmination, has collective momentum and is painfully long overdue.It challenges me as a person of white privilege to listen carefully, acknowledge and root out my internalized racism and see my complicity in the unjust, inequitable systems I benefit from… There has been an unforgivable complacency with this violence.

Now, the responsibility of what evolves out of this and where we go next as a nation is squarely on all of us. Some form of action is required on everyone’s part.

Whether it takes the form of getting educated, joining the protests, pressing politicians, signing petitions, donating money to organizations that are BIPOC led.…

We must work to eradicate once and for all the problem that seems well-described by this quote from Tolstoy:

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except getting off his back.”   Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

This time is an exceptional opportunity, ripe for immediate and tangible change.

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