Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

When white nationalists are the only whites talking about white group identity, it can force other whites to avoid claiming whiteness out of a fear of association. What is needed are more conscious white people to talk about themselves as a racial group.

many of us may not understand how it works, but it is the system we have. And we need to know how it works before we can change it or create a new one. Do a Google search to learn how the system works and get proactively involved. There are people within the community who are politically savvy and resourceful. Seek them out, learn from them, and su

Compassion practice motivates wise action.

The practice of metta is like composting. It may not seem like much is occurring, but deep inside the heap of your practice, good things are happening. In time, you will have rich, nourishing soil to feed and seed kindness. You could also consider metta practice a heart technology—a software upgrade you put into the hardwiring of your conditioning.

For the next week, I will not offer advice unless I am asked.

Offering Kindness to a Challenging Person Once you feel full or feel a sense of calm and stability from offering metta to yourself, you may want to offer metta to a challenging person. Bring to mind someone with whom you experience tension, difficulties, or dissatisfaction—perhaps a racial conflict toward an individual or leader. The challenging pe

The voting process is what put the people who govern our lives into office. If we do not participate in the electoral process, we can’t change its dysfunction, and we cannot influence decisions and policies that impact our communities. We may not like the system or trust it, and

“But when I look at you, I don’t see race.” As an African American woman, this well-meaning comment from the lens of the white individual renders my experience as a racial group member invisible, my history whitewashed, and my people at continued risk. It’s an innocence I can’t afford to have. When whites don’t see race when they look at me, they s

What’s Unfinished Is Reborn: Historical Racial Trauma