The Week After

Okay. We shared a significant experience - more profound for some, perhaps even frustrating for others.

I thought it might be a good idea to kick off the conversation with a look at what we are all thinking and doing about anti-racism in this critical time following the event.

One aspect of this conversation is accountability. That both frightens and encourages me. Perhaps with greater accountability, Christ will do more through us, more quickly and decisively.

I'm still pondering the implications of what I learned about the three levels of racism's inisidious power. One thing strikes me as needful right now. Unless and until I expand my circle of close contacts with people of color, anti-racism can remain a never completed duty (at best) or just one of a thousand competing intentions.

The longer I procrastinate about all this, the longer people I say that I love will suffer. So this week, I am taking inventory of my friendships and close work and business related associations with people of color and I intend to create some kind of icon that will help me to keep the urgency in this process of deep conversion to a pro-reconciliational lifestyle.

How about you? (Respond by clicking "Comment" or by posting your own thoughts at the top of this blog.)
BR-H

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