Iaccepted a painful self-realization last week. There is a gap between the person I thought I was and the person I’ve actually been.
I thought I was a person who believed every human being is kadosh, sacred. And yet I have been silent as people of color have been traumatized right in front of me my whole life.
The truth is that most of you reading this are white and you have been silent, too. The truths are excruciating, but if we want to live up to our own ideals, we must confront them.
So herewith are some thoughts and rhetorical questions I’m grappling with, and I invite you to do the same.
Of course, looting is wrong and terrible. It is, however, situational.