Speak We

Enough is enough.

That was an old-fashioned expressions my parents used when they reached a boiling point. It that it was time to stop passively accepting something. It was time for change.

People always say that you won’t change until you hit your bottom.

And then we all keep hitting bottoms and not changing. Looking from the outside, people wonder how many bottoms it will take.

As a country, we are hitting a bottom that I think we and the whole world are all praying is going to be our catalyst for change.

This is June. Gay Pride Month. And the slogan created by ACT UP to raise the issue of AIDS globally is being resurrected again as it relates to all the hate and violence in our country: SILENCE EQUALS DEATH.

And specifically as it relates to racism.

Every day I pray for my African-American friends and for their families. I pray for my African-American neighbors and their families. I pray for the African-American communities and their families.

But today, that prayer needs to be heard out loud.

Today my heart-centered practice is to speak we. And to speak we all day long.

Because

Silence equals complicity.

Silence equals complacency.

Silence equals avoidance.

Silence equals acceptance.

Silence equals denial.

Silence equals violence.

We have to raise our voices to speak the Truth in Love.

That is how we speak we.

We cannot keep living me-centered lives as if something that is happening to someone else or another community is not our issue. ANYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVE NEEDS HEALING.

We must speak the Truth to hate with Love.

This is choosing Love.

This is the heart-centered practice of we.

Here is today’s video about my own journey to understand my own racism: