It’s the part of you that is Love, and all we have to do is let go and fall into it. This is the part of you that has always loved God and said “Yes” to God. But it’s actually accessing a deeper, broader sense of the self, which is already whole, already content, already filled with abundant life. To Western or comfortable people, surrender and letting go sounds like losing. Continue reading “Richard Rohr on White Privilege & The Bible” →įrom Richard Rohr, the director of The Center For Action And Contemplation: It is especially hidden in countries and all groupings where white people are the majority. Only the outsider can spot all these attitudes in us. Because we have never been on the other side, we largely do not recognize the structural access, the trust we think we deserve, the assumption that we always belong and do not have to earn our belonging, the “we set the tone” mood that we white folks live inside of–and take totally for granted and even naturally deserved. Since we do not consciously have racist attitudes or overt racist behavior, we kindly judge ourselves to be open minded, egalitarian, “liberal”, and therefore surely not racist. Why? Because it is structural instead of psychological, and we tend to interpret most things in personal, individual, and psychological ways. White privilege is largely hidden from our eyes if we are white.

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based organizer Romal Tune and the Franciscan contemplative Richard Rohr, first published here at HuffPost:

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