Beyond a fragile spirituality:
the path of sacred activism
DR RICCI-JANE ADAMS
IN 2018, I DISCOVERED THAT I WAS A WHITE SUPREMACIST. FOR AN EDUCATED, WELL-TRAVELLED, SPIRITUAL AND SEEMINGLY LOVING PERSON, THIS WAS AS SHOCKING A DISCOVERY AS IT SOUNDS.
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o keep it simple my awakening began with a woman named Layla Saad. Layla was educating white spiritual women to understand how our collective and individual behaviour was causing direct and real harm to black, brown, indigenous women of colour, through our white supremacy, privilege, fragility and exceptionalism.
Layla offered a challenge on her instagram that invited white women to address their inherent racism. (This is now a best-selling book, and I encourage every white woman to buy it and to take the challenge https:// www.meandwhitesupremacybook. com/ especially if the terms mentioned above are new to you. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves).
To start off, please know, I was deeply offended. I tried to count myself out of her accusations, and then I got angry. How dare she tell me that my spirituality was superficial, bypassing and violent? That wasn’t me. She must be talking about other spiritual white women. I was fragile! I went through all the stages that I can see now were my ego attempting MUMPRENEUR MOVEMENT |
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