Did you stumble upon us or were we recommended to you?
Either way, we are really glad you’re here. This is an excellent first step in a journey full of personal learning, deep introspection, and foundational shifts. This will quite possibly be the most important exploration of your life – no real end in sight, but with rich rewards of liberation for everyone. Welcome to the learning.
You are ready for the support you need to dismantle white supremacy’s barbed hurdles of instilling in us fear and resistance, anger and fragility. Instead, we will begin to understand as truth, all of the unconscious, ingrained ways we unknowingly harm people of color and, in particular and throughout our country’s history, Black people. This work is not for shaming, this is what we must normalize. We are white in a powerful country designed by white men specifically for white people and nobody else. Period. Now, we must do better. Here’s where we start doing and being better.
We do better by learning. We do better by listening. We do better by believing what Black, Brown, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and all tellers of truth have been telling us for well over 400 years. We do best by recognizing how being white positions us differently than, in more powerful positions than, and with many fewer obstacles to our success than those of us who aren’t white.