March 31, 2024 – A

The white response
to the black presence 
has been--
and continues to be--
atrocious, ridiculous and absurd.

If you are white or black,
you can't top this for a lasting 
source of grief,
mourning
and sorrow.

Something else to add to our
list of items
to bring before our Wailing Wall.

Racism has no place in our lives,
yet, it has prevented our lives
from being anything close 
to what they might have been with out it
for all of us everywhere.

And for what?

If there were a God keeping score,
white people would have to be consigned to hell
for their racism alone.

To present that to our healing heart
at the Wailing Wall
would be to put us in our place
in need of absolution, mercy and pardon--
and we are the ones who will have to
grant these things to ourselves!

I will be a long time squaring myself 
up with OUR racism.
Eternity may not be long enough.
I hope you know what I mean. 

–0–