What if the word racist wasn’t the bad thing?
What if it was an awakening?
A realization & a choice like
Alcoholic. Oh, we’d say. Oh, shit.
But then we could go to a meeting
& be real for once.
Hi, I’m ___, we would say
& they’d reply, Hi, ____.
How can we help you get sober?
What if it was an awakening?
A realization & a choice like
Alcoholic. Oh, we’d say. Oh, shit.
But then we could go to a meeting
& be real for once.
Hi, I’m ___, we would say
& they’d reply, Hi, ____.
How can we help you get sober?
What if we admitted that we were powerless
without help, That, as James Baldwin said,
white people are trapped in a history which we
do not understand & until we understand, we cannot
be released. What if the word racist is not the end
of freedom, but the beginning?
without help, That, as James Baldwin said,
white people are trapped in a history which we
do not understand & until we understand, we cannot
be released. What if the word racist is not the end
of freedom, but the beginning?
What if we learned the exact nature of our wrongs &
Admitted them? What if we
Made a list of all persons we & our country had harmed, & became willing to make amends to them all?
What if we made direct amends to such people?
What if we called those amends reparations?
Admitted them? What if we
Made a list of all persons we & our country had harmed, & became willing to make amends to them all?
What if we made direct amends to such people?
What if we called those amends reparations?
What if we continued to take personal & societal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it?
What if we had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps,
so we tried to carry this message to others, & to practice these principles in all our affairs?
What if we had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps,
so we tried to carry this message to others, & to practice these principles in all our affairs?
