Being Anti-Racist Doesn’t Mean I Hate My White Skin, Or Yours

Stop projecting your insecurities

Yesterday, I sent a message to my email list and my community about the actions I’m personally taking to dismantle white supremacy. I expressed deep concern that I live in a country where there’s no consequence for someone who considers themselves ‘civilian militia’, buys an assault weapon and drives across state lines with the intent to intimidate, and kill, people he doesn’t agree with.

This is not a new phenomenon, white men enacting violence and getting away with it, but we must make it stop.

The trolls came out of the woodwork. Good — show me who you are.

One person told me that empaths, lightworkers and mystics don’t EVER get involved in politics, we’re too transcendent for that and everything that happens in this world is an illusion (a post for a later time).

I was told multiple times I need to be afraid of all the desperate, dangerous Hispanics coming over the border. Now you got personal. My life partner is Mexican American, and his people are from Chihuahua.

I’ve had only welcoming experiences with his family and within the majority Hispanic border community I now live in. I worked side-by-side with hundreds of Latino men for years when I was a…