Charlottesville White Supremacists: We are not racist! We just don’t want to be replaced. We, white, able -bodied, “Christian” Americans, who replaced all native cultures on this land of USA, hereby decree our right to not be replaced. Alongside our deeply seated guilt that not only did we replace, we are deeply fearful that someone will now replace us. Never mind that we are completely confused about who we fear that might be. But whoever they may be, they are obviously vastly more powerful then we are, or they would not pose a threat. And as far as being racist toward blacks, we are not, thank God. After all. It was on the backs of the black people our white southern culture was built. Heaven forbid we would call ourselves racist as we fight to keep our rightful place on this land. Please world, listen to our innocence. Please omnipotent God listen to us as we unwittingly display our impotence. We have civil rights too. The right to proclaim our right to be here as a right just like the right of everyone else who has rights but just not as much as our right to be right. Or else we are in deep shit to take a little responsibility for our history.
Charlottesville, thank you(?) for helping peel back the festering wounds of our heritage. We are incredibly sorry more deaths occurred in this process. Thank you for helping us realize that to move forward as a nation, we must confront, acknowledge, and reconcile the sins of our past. We can and must end a cycle of guilt, fear, and confusion that erupts in fearful public displays of hate disguised as innocent acts of self defense or revelries of superiority that kill. That it is now necessary to recognize the violent nature of our birth. Thank you for exposing the debt of gratitude we owe those who were here before us. The native cultures we fought, and still fight, to dehumanize. To those we forcibly brought here to do the work we did not want to do ourselves. That yes, even though our founding fathers held slaves, it was not humane or right for them to do so. We are caught in the midst of our own evolution. We consciously opt for the tipping point of courage and acknowledgement. We all participate every day in small decisions that make our collective whole. What we read, who we listen to, including the small voices of prejudice in each of our heads, matters. We confront our own prejudices now, knowing that many of us, in our desire to be good people, have pretended that they don’t speak. But they do. About anyone “different” than “us”. So now we listen. We stop fearing our own selves. We stop and think. Who taught me this? What is my truth? What do I honestly stand for without the pretense or burden of having to be “good”? Am I holding a light or eclipsing one? We all love to pretend in our own innocence. But only children have innocence, and they are in the care of those of us making the decisions. Watching our every move. MOVE MOVE MOVE!!! WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TO GREATER LIGHT. LET OUR SHADOWS BECOME COOL PLACES OF REST.
Dance Wildly. Pray Wildly. Listen Wildly. Oh My God, we must.