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Losing Weight a Poem for Juneteenth [1]
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Date: 2025-06-19
The George Floyd public murder — re-awakened me to the reality of systemic racism – and the need to re-examine my own self in this regards…
As a white man born
in America
my enculturation included
bits of subconscious racism
that I thought
"was not a part of me,
"how could they be,
"I'm not racist."
And pretty much that was
true:
I did not cross the street;
I hired employees
regardless of sex and race;
dated, kissed, laughed with,
had a friend or two...
and politically called for
greater steps of equality...
and yet,
when did I ever, never
see black skin first
or have unworthy mental thoughts
crawl through my brain?
And who knows
what unintentional acts
I did do?
How to change?
First, love myself
and then love others
as myself,
and gradually through
conscious practice
and stupid mistakes,
love began to film
the surfaces of my eyes,
and those old bits of
embedded racism
and sexism and other isms
of this ilk,
began to melt away
like butter on a hot griddle...
and even though I still weigh
190 pounds,
I am a lighter
human being.
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