Following up on comments I made yesterday about #Gaza I was confronted today with this: “Even if whites feel affinity with the plight of people of color, they often feel that the issues concerning race are mostly not about themselves. We want to offer rights generously to others, but don’t see the problems rooted in our own racial identity. It becomes more about how we help people who are black and brown than how we confront our own white racist privilege.” Jim Wallis, America’s Original Sin (p. 79)
This was exactly where I was. Where, in some ways, I still am. I want and try to help but I don’t look in the mirror much. Until yesterday naming my #sin let alone the sin of communities I am part of was…not something I did, except on the vaguest intellectual level. I am sorry about that. I’m praying for guidance on how to move forward, how to turn towards my part in creating a global beloved community that is the Divine garden on Earth. Taking one step for a better today and tomorrow.