Dear Black Man … (07/26/16)
Not only do I openly & unabashedly recognize my own White privilege (which is oddly FAR less pronounced over here in Germany than it is back in the “land of the free”), but I take this moment to also loudly & proudly tell all my non-White brothers & sisters around the world (and especially in the United States) that I fully honor their call to Justice and that I fully support their call for Equality … I will be humbly-yet-boldly wearing my own Black Lives Matter shirt with regularity when I return to the States … Until then, I in-Courage all of my Caucasian brothers & sisters to do what they can to bring the principles of Dignity & Decency back to a culture that was at least partially founded on the same.
A) GET EDUCATED about the horrific systemic racism that still infests most if not all of the U.S. …
B) REACH OUT with acts of Kindness to those living in the primarily minority neighborhoods (&/or simply the minorities who live nearby) in your own towns & cities …
C) BECOME ACTIVE in your own community on raising awareness and demanding change related to the racial disparities that still plague your nation.
America COULD indeed “become great again”, my Friends, but if she is indeed to do so, it must be YOU (not your politicians) who do that making.
Amen … Let it be so.
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