Today’s episode is a follow up with Neil Edwards (Episode 31) a man who is committed to speaking truth for the sake of added meaning.
I’m certain that new meaning will be added to these moments for you as Neil describes the toxicity of white supremacy in all of us. He speaks powerful words into our hearts to help us understand where we are, and what it will require of us, white people, to root it out.
Neil’s anger is clean and soft in ways that so accurately reflect Jesus. He lays the responsibility squarely at our feet in a way that is without judgment and full of compassion. It’s so powerful.
I think it’s because his commitment to justice lives grounded in love. He calls us to devote ourselves to the inner work that reveals what’s under the surface of our lives and to do it together. We need to enroll the support of our fellow white humans who are committed to doing their work alongside of us. Together we can become those who engage in the kind of sustained effort that is imperative if we are ever to earn the trust of our fellow humans who happen to be black.
We can’t be content to offer support on social media, let that be only the beginning of a work that doesn’t end. I love how Neil invites us to go and go and go again, as those who bring healing through face to face, person to person experiences and conversations.
I also love the way he compares our condition to an addiction. Addicts are the last to see their need to heal and once they commit to it they must see it as a life long process of recovery. This work will never be done because the tentacles of racism, like addiction, are so deeply woven into the fabric of our being.
There is so much to learn. Will you listen from a place of humility that receives the responsibility he lays at our feet? Will you come back next Friday and talk with me more about what that might look like and consider jumping in with me to do the work? I couldn’t be more ready to do it, more passionate about how we can do it, or more willing to create a path for us to do it together.
Neil wants more for us humans as we live this life together, and you probably know I have been working to create resources to that end for several years.
I think we are on the brink of something so much better! Please take the call of this episode seriously and let’s get at the transformation we want!
I will be looking for your comments and your emails. I’m serious about this, and I think you are too.
Mentioned in this Episode
If We Matter Episode 31: I can see myself in you
Resources
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