レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 7月26日 06時56分

We are so goddamn privileged. The color of our skin. The circumstances that have surrounded us both since birth. Yes, I’ve known suffering. I’ve known pain. But I’ve never in my life known racism. I don’t know what it’s like to be a minority. If something was to happen to me, say, a man would stab me in the neck while waiting for the train with my sister, it would be front page news.
I’ve steered away from public conversations on white privilege because, and this is the honest truth: my privilege makes me uncomfortable. I talk about it with my friends, the injustice of this world and the part we play in it, but in the public eye I’m scared to say the wrong thing. I’m uneducated so I say nothing. I’m realizing now that my silence is loud and actually, it speaks volumes. My silence is part of my privilege. I don’t have to yell this shit off the rooftops because I’m so far removed from it. I hide but actually, I’m a white woman so fucking uncomfortable talking about the fact that the feminism I preach doesn’t include women of color. That the “facts” I learned about the women’s movement in school doesn’t include women of color. I am scratching my head at why we don’t have more WOC in our teacher training - is it me? Am I doing something wrong? - but I’m scared to ask the question out loud because I’m secretly worried that I am. I have contemplated so many ways to change this but each suggestion leads me back to the same question: is it racist? To assign a quota of spots? To offer discounts based on ethnicity? I don’t know. And I’m scared to do the wrong thing. So I remain silent. Yoga still looks like it’s for the thin, white woman in all our media. Meanwhile, in the real world, a woman of color is 4 times as likely to die while giving birth than a white woman is. I turn on the news and it screams at me. This injustice I’m so scared to talk about.

What I’m saying is... I’m owning up to my silence. My discomfort. My privilege. It’s time I get my head out of my ass and start having these conversations.
WOC - I’m listening. I want to be of service. I have no clue where to start. Now, hoping I haven’t just said all the wrong things. #listening

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