Let’s talk, pray, and weep together about race/white supremacy. For the next few weeks, I will be sending out resources, poetry, prayers, and links.

The first one is podcast from Krista Tippett On Being. It is under an hour. I found it to be particularly powerful. https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/

I am grateful for the way in which Resmaa Menakem links issue of race to trauma in our bodies, trauma that goes back generations. He speaks of white body supremacy.

Join me at 11 am tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16 from 11am–11:45 to reflect on this interview.   Questions to consider.

Menakem suggests that the situation in Dark Ages and Middle Ages in Europe impacts us today.  What do you think? 

Menakem speaks of the importance of symbols and story to young people.  What stories are we telling 13 year old white boys? What stories should we be sharing? Menakem says:

“White tears, white women’s tears, can move a nation. They will move people to mobilize. An Indigenous woman’s tears ain’t gonna move nothing. A black woman’s tears ain’t gonna move nothing. And so the piece that I say about that is that this idea of being able to land this race question in a way where white people are comfortable is a fallacy.”

Menakem says to Krista Tippett, “Your niceness is inadequate to deal with the level of brutality that has occurred.” What supports or practices do we (white folk at Broad Bay) need to begin to deal with the brutality that has occurred?

What else should we talk about?

If you want to join the conversation, email me at broadbayucc@gmail.com and I’ll send you a Skype link or arrange to give you a call.