Please Pass Along

None of the protest and none of the looting that may or may not come from the protest is worth anyone getting hurt or dying today.  If people need to make a point, a very important point by breaking windows, so let it be.  For people who are racist, it is ingrained in them in childhood.  No one is born and thinks as a baby "I want to grow up and be racist" and violent.  Racism is violent.  Everyone, everyone wants to be healthy, happy, and at peace.  We develop, grow, and learn more from the womb to 7 years than any other time in our life.  When people are racist, it doesn't mean they are good, bad, right, wrong.  It means their childhood trauma has not been addressed and healed from.  Childhood trauma is the #1 public health crisis in the Nation that no one seems to want to address. To address racism we also need to address it long term.  For people who are racist they need to be addressed gently with empathy, as we all do, for long term change.  This will allow them to feel safe so they don't have to be defensive and so they can heal, grow, shift, and change.  One of the gifts of COVID 19 is that we are forced to be more present.  We can use this presence not only to make it through COVID but also to collectively make it through this racism.  When we are not being present we are putting others around us in a box. Do you want your lack of presence keeping someone around you from changing for their or the collectives highest good?  If you want a racist to change you need to hold space and give them the opportunity to change.  I am not saying I am right but I am not saying that I am wrong either.  I am saying let's start a conversation where we can be present and empathetic and love.  We are all connected!  We are all one!  LOVE!  ​