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I’m about to make some of y’all uncomfortable. But that’s okay. Growing pains often mean we are growing and changing for the better. It’s healthy. So sit down and hear me out....

I have seen many forms of racism here in my own town, often times committed by the same people who tag their church in their family’s Easter pictures.

Racism happens when you want that black athlete on your son’s travel basketball/football/baseball team, so that your child has a successful season. Yet, you never once invite that same black athlete to your son’s sleepover. Even though your son asked you if he could come. You told him, “I just don’t know his mother that well. She probably wouldn’t be comfortable letting him come over.” You don’t know ME that well either. But my white son WAS invited. I know you told your son that, because your son went back to school and apologized to his black teammate in front of my kid. That makes YOU part of the problem.
And to be honest, that’s why I didn’t let mine come to that party. I’m sorry I didn’t speak up then. I just replied to your text we had other plans. That also makes ME part of the problem.

Racism happens when you don’t speak to that same athlete’s mother at those travel ball tournaments. Not giving her a chance to know you, like you claimed is the excuse her son can’t be invited to the sleepover.
You only sit with the moms who look like you, who are members of the same country club as you, but you let her go sit alone down the bleachers. That makes YOU part of the problem.

Racism happens when you tell your daughters, “I just don’t think it’s a good idea for you to attend the school dance with your black friend. I don’t have a problem with his skin color, but your grandparents won’t understand. They grew up in a different time.” I know you told her that, because she went back to school and cried telling my daughter that story. And my child came home and asked why anybody’s grandparents would care. That makes YOU a part of the problem.

Racism happens when you straight up tell your daughter she isn’t allowed to date the boy she chased all Fall because she naturally had a huge crush on him from the first day of school. And he finally got the nerve to ask her out. But once you learned he was biracial, you told her to break up with him. I know you told her that because she told HIM those exact words. And he then told me that story. And when I offered to call you up and chew you out, or even stand as a character witness on his behalf, he nonchalantly told me, “It’s okay, Mrs. Hudson. I’m used to it. I would rather you not say anything. Besides, I don’t want her to get in any trouble.” They kept secretly texting each other the better part of the school year.
And that makes YOU part of the problem.

Racism happens when you make a post on your neighborhood’s Facebook page, alerting your neighbors there is a “Group of teens I don’t recognize to our neighborhood, just hanging out in the back of their trucks in the pool parking lot!!!” And when I happened to pass by that parking lot I noticed what you meant to say was- there is a group of BLACK teens hanging out in the pool parking lot. Yet, I’ve never seen a single post when white teens were doing just that exact thing. That makes YOU part of the problem.
I didn’t comment and call you out on your racial profiling post. Instead I rolled my eyes and told my husband about it. And we agreed it was racially driven. But not calling you out on that neighborhood Facebook post makes ME part of the problem too.

These are all true stories, and all things I have witnessed personally in the last year.
Are you ready to stop being part of the problem??? I am. Let’s do this.

It’s time to LISTEN. It’s time to LOVE. It’s time to PRAY for God to open your eyes and your heart. Ask God to help you see people as He sees them. I promise, you will be amazed at how quickly He answers your prayer.
Let’s do better, y’all. Wake up! Change is hard. But you are called to do this. ❤️