Social Justice Chronicles

Us simple folks have a deep-gut feeling that the lives of the rich and famous are not just out of reach, but that they have something, something profound and inaccessible that’s completely different from us. It’s a weird feeling that we could never truly mix with that world even if our skin color, wardrobe, and way of speaking didn’t set us apart.

What does a frequency of justice mean especially in relation to white supremacy and racial justice? When I was sitting in a ballroom of 1,900 people from around the world, I realized the significance of being with a different frequency related to our work in addressing white supremacy. A frequency that we, as individuals and a collective, can decide to engage with or not, as it travels through our emotional and physical bodies.

I’ve been sitting on how to write this article for days. I’m watching what’s happening in Minneapolis with horror, as most of us, wanting to do my best to channel my power, and my rage, and not become hopeless and stunned. For the system feeds off shock and hopelessness. As long as we live from fear, state violence wins; racism wins. As a scholar of history and social patterns …