サラ・バレリスさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サラ・バレリスInstagram)「“Racism is a system not an action”... Wake up. I was avoiding this book when my friend @sarah.m.hudson gifted it to me a year ago. To be honest, I couldn’t imagine reading it in public, and anything overtly talking about my “whiteness” was just too much and too awkward for me and my polite, cheeky style of, in my mind, being an ally to ALL!!! Yay!!!(🙄) This avoidance is one of the profound (and difficult) realizations i am having of myself, how in many ways I have avoided difficult conversations and those specifically about race because it just felt easier to be the kind of person who BELIEVES in justice for all, but isn’t willing to really risk losing anything for it. I was comfortable... and willfully staying asleep. The gift of the corona virus is that there is no sleepy status quo anywhere anymore. we are forced into SEEING everything. We are being asked to really wake up and look at it. Look at this world and where we are failing each other, and where we are deciding to stay asleep because it’s more comfortable. I know you can feel the movement and the groundswell of this consciousness shift. It’s uncomfortable BECAUSE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE. It is the pain of growth and healing... if we do it right. I want to look deeper, and lean towards the dismantling. Listen to the ones who know WAY more than I do. I am learning to unlearn what is now, and has always been a one-sided story. Witnessing that the “white” perspective is the organizing principle of the world ON PURPOSE. With dark and desperate consequences that have robbed too many of their dignity, livelihoods, and lives. This is not new information. It has been shouted at many of our deaf ears. I was sleeping and I’m embarrassed and I have drool on my face but I am awake now and I am committed to the awakening. I’m very much in the beginning, and I will make many mistakes. But I don’t want to keep pretending like there is a “normal” to return to that’s worth a shit. Onward, into the new. The mess. The protest. The riot. The freedom. The pain. The building. The challenge. The glory. The twisting, churning, blessed and restless heart of what is real and true and awakened. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.」6月19日 9時04分