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I still don’t know how to be an anti-racist [1]
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Date: 2025-04-08
Been trying for 50 actual years and I still don’t know how to be an anti-racist.
I want to be an ally in this cutthroat anti-DEI world. I really do.
As a whyte person who has walked a few talks
I know
Ally-ship is not for the feint hearted
or the merely romantic.
It involves pain
rejection
accusation and blame.
It follows humility and loss of self
openness beyond emptiness
empathy beyond endurance
commitment beyond memory.
Not a point to reach and claim
an excruciating knowledge
I choose to face, to acknowledge, to undermine if I am able.
Historical truth, the burden
Words of knowing
the weapons I hold
inside and tight, always at the ready
to speak to share to scream.
First, we must dare.
It is lonely. But I dare. I do dare.
I will ever be an Evolving Antiracist.
and it’s okay
I will never get there.
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