I am In The Call To Create As The Streets Are On Fire...

C2C PROCESS NOTES

• I am in the call to create as the streets are on fire

• What are you willing to do?

• To answer that question: I will change the things I can not accept

• Considering the 3 points above, it is incredibly heavy for me right now with the deaths of Ahmaud, Breanna, George and Oluwatoyin

• I was born 6 months before the assassination of Martin Luther King and 1 year before Fred Hampton was murdered in his home  

• I was raised with love and generational scars.  Wrapped in collective PTSD, secrets and forced silence. Exposing those generational scars because despite all the love, hurt people hurt people

• Resiliency was never an option

• No periods ending these words because the revolution continues not to be televised

• My community had and have to recalibrate, to find a new space to thrive and be

• Another space, out from the chaos, found in the country or the bottle

• Another place to carve out dignity hidden in the brush, along the shores and in caves

• Another location, a brief rest stop before the drive continues on the loop and in the loop

• Disrupting this pattern requires acknowledgement and awareness of the claws our institutions (churches and the academy) dug into our heads and hearts as they carved out the loop

• I am tired

• I am tired of being tired

• I’m tired of not being seen

• I am shifting the burden on to its rightful owner because I can and because I refuse to continue easing anyones guilt.  This is no longer acceptable. 

• I am changing the things I can not accept

• I’m choosing to linger in and to honor these spaces out from.  

• What am I willing to do?  I am willing to be seen using whatever platform I have to reappear.

• I can not be silent about this pattern of erasure and plunder.  I can no longer see it as a series of individual choices which is just a shield and a deflection.  So I’m willing to call it out, call them out, call us out.