Expand beyond comfort

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"…” (Martin Luther King Jr. in his letter from Birmingham City Jail in April 1963)

We’re doing it again

We’re still doing it

We’re still the neutral nice orderly comfortable moderate white people

I/We need to do more

I/We need to push ourselves

Be uncomfortable more, sacrifice more

There are not enough of us willing to risk enough

We’re short of the tipping point because of us 

Too many of us, too often doing just the bare minimum to feel like we’re one of the good white people—myself included

We’re still upholding the status quo, and it’s killing, harming, and traumatizing our children, our futures—here and around the world

And the earth

We are short-sighted

We have willful amnesia

We refuse to learn from or even look honestly at history

We make ourselves the center of the universe and forget we are all connected

We need to step it up

Interrogate our assumptions, our biases, our programming, our comfort zones

Expand

If it doesn’t hurt, isn’t scary, isn’t uncomfortable

If we’re not risking something or giving something up

Then I/We are not doing enough 

We each must start where we are, every day

“Do something that scares you every day”

For the good of the collective

Push beyond our comfort zones

For justice and liberation, the essential ingredients for true peace for all