Let’s Get To Work
3) Total psychic paralysis. I’ve been describing the visceral expression of this paralysis as similar to what some of us felt when we first came to really understand the term “flatten the curve” —that there was no saving us, that it was way too late, that we had absolutely not done all we could do, that we’d failed ourselves and our fellow humans. And as a result, that we face grave and irreversible consequences so dire even the greatest optimists could not chart a path to our redemption.
And all these failures while we had the data to show us what was coming, what has long been here. We knew. But we didn’t see. We chose not to see. It is, unfortunately, way too fucking late for white people to become conscious. And yet, we have to work at it relentlessly anyway. We must let consciousness help us thaw from the numbing, deceptive, insanely dangerous escapism that has always defined the white American experience.