Reflections on Equity and Justice in America: Ferguson

I've been struggling with an appropriate post about the Michael Brown tragedy. What can someone like me say that has meaning?

Today I came across something on the subject that spoke to me: http://www.bonbonbreak.com/dear-white-moms/

Wishing for a world without prejudice,

Ingrid

Addendum on 8/31/14: This may help explain the frustration to others who are fortunate enough to need further explanation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-rebuild-trust-between-the-police-and-african-americans/2014/08/29/77c59ace-2d50-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html?wpmk=MK0000205

Turning the soil

This quote is particularly meaningful to me and I hope others will appreciate its honesty as we work to be better people and good parents: "The thing about being an anti-racist parent is that you have to be brave. You have to keep pulling out the roots that are embedded in your own heart. It’s like one of those garden weeds that you can’t smother or yank or poison. You have to keep turning the soil and taking it out piece by piece with great determination, honesty and courage. With God’s grace your children will learn how to do that from watching you stumble and get up again to try to repair the damage. There is no chance they will grow up unaffected by racism. Our job is to teach them the tools to dismantle it, in our own fumbling, open-hearted way." http://curlykidz.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/how_to_be_an_anti-racist_parent.pdf

Reflections on Equity and Justice in America

Friday, August 22, 2014

Ferguson

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White supremacists storm the capital, and we are ready to move on