"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." - Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.

What does it mean to be racist? Many of us, when we think of the word "racist" we think of a man in a pointed white hat and KKK outift holding a torch. We don't usually, however, think of a racist as a doctor, a school teacher or a doting mother taking her children to school. We classify a racist as a bad person, rather than a miseducated person, which consquently, perputates  oppression. Many caucasian individuals avoid having conversations about race because they are fearful to offend someone, or be called racist; they fear being socially stained as a bad person - so they stay silent.

"White people desperately want to believe that only the lonely. isolated 'whites only' club members are racist. This is why the word racist offends 'nice white people' so deeply. It challenges their self-identifcation as good people. Sadly, most white people are more worried about being called racist than about whether or not their actions are in fact racist or harmful." - Austin Channing Brown. 

In this episode, I share my personal experience with growing up in a town that was 96% white, and how I began to realize how much of a bubble I was in when I ventured off into the "real world". I discuss my experiences dating outside my race, ways I began to educate myself on white supremacy and how I learned that I could show up as an active ally for my brothers and sisters.

Ultimately, until all of humanity is free and treated equally, none of us are free. May we rise with our brothers and sisters of every culture, and begin to have consious dialogue that heals and awakens us from the illusion of separation and divison.