レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 2月3日 09時46分

Here I am with my daughter after our run today. We go to bed every night with a full belly in a warm house where clean drinking water comes right out the tap and the fridge is always full. When we want to go on vacation we don’t think about it; we just go. We never have to worry about our safety. We don’t know what it’s like to not have a roof over our heads, or to live paycheck to paycheck worrying how to make ends meet. We live in a safe place where we don’t have to worry about violence or persecution and the color of our skin assures us we’re not likely to be subject to judgement or prejudice - or worse. When I go on the subway and forget to pay, security guards send me off with a warning. When I get pulled over driving, I worry about a potential ticket, not my life. ⁣
⁣When I was 13 and had my first run-in with the law, the police asked me what I was doing “with those people”, pointing to my friends of color. I was too naive to understand the centuries of violence that lie beneath statements like that. I didn’t know what racism was because I’d never been subjected to it. To this day, I will never be able to fully comprehend what it’s like to be treated unfairly, and like in so many cases in today’s world; abused and violated, because of the color of my skin. I can’t know because it doesn’t happen to me. But it happens to other people, in different shapes and forms, every day. I can turn my head the other way and avert my gaze and go back to my cushioned, privileged life, or... I can be outraged. Look for means of reparation. Try to learn when the opportunity is there. And most of all: listen. I’ve spent too many years not listening enough. ⁣
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Today, I’m outraged by parents being separated from their children at the border. By a pregnant woman abused on the subway for not finding her subway ticket fast enough. Tomorrow, if I stop listening, I’ll forget and I won’t be outraged anymore. I have to make the conscious effort to stay engaged in the injustice that happens in this world for the simple reason that I’m privileged enough for it to not be happening to me. ⁣
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