Listen

We cling to our fragile supremacy like children to threadbare blankets woven from ignorance, fear, and misplaced pride. We regard our whiteness as proof of some divine providence, handed down from a white god to a white Christ to white leaders. The longer we cling to these delusions, the deeper the dilution of our denial becomes until the already shaky scaffolding of entitlement comes crashing thunderously down.

We’ve squandered far too many years oblivious to the call of history. Content to ignore evidence of our past, we have failed to unseat that self-imposed superiority in favor of deafening silence. We have turned over agency to the strawmen of policy, hoping for a spontaneous manifestation of decency, a moral revelation. Still, they have repeatedly proven they are uninterested in inspiring change, only manufacturing a marketable divide.

We stand now at a cornerstone of history, equipped with limitless resources for change and the capacity to build consensus organically rather than through force of will. If we rise above our naked insecurities, surrender our fragile supremacy, and just LISTEN to our fellow man’s protests, we’ll succeed in making that critical first step towards a more complete union.