Been a rough week.
My thoughts are still more than a bit...jumbled and I don’t quite know where to begin other than an image that I keep coming back to.
That image is contained in The New York Times’ Sarah Maslin Nir’s Wednesday profile of Christian Cooper, the black birdwatcher who was subjected to a false and racist 911 call to the police.
Then he resumed. “If we are going to make progress, we’ve got to address these things, and if this painful process is going to help us address this — there’s the yellow warbler!” Mr. Cooper said, cutting himself off to peer around with his binoculars.
Yes.
Racism is many things but, in a lot of instances it has been such a... distraction from the important, not-so-important, frivolous, pleasurable, and mundane things in my life.
I don’t mean “distraction” in the sense that I see that word utilized in the overly simplistic (and frequently wrongheaded) analyses that prioritize socioeconomic class over race in terms of problems that need to be dealt with.
I mean that in a personal, existential, and even, vaguely, a spiritual sense.
It’s hard enough trying to be the best person that I can possibly be and dealing with my own problems as it is and then here comes racism entering the mix.
Not by my choice. But by the choices of others.
Now, let me get back to that bridge game that I was playing on my phone app.
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