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Visitors make silent visits to organic memorial featuring a mural of George Floyd, near the spot where he died while in police custody, in Minneapolis, Minn
America Protests , Minneapolis, United States – 31 May 2020
Feeling a summons to attend to the complex and deeply disturbing treatment of humans by other humans, I refer you to my shared thoughts as beautifully written by a fellow Psychotherapist, Ester Perrel who writes:
“We’re in a moment that highlights the fault lines in our society.
I ask you to consider the difference between solidarity and reform. To understand that when we say things like “we just want to go back to the way things were,” that we fundamentally exclude those for whom the status quo has always been unjust.
When it comes to addressing the collective trauma that defines the black American experience, there is a systemic unwillingness to recognize the conditions under which our country was founded and to make reparations for these specific historical injustices.
For our continued work as a community, I ask every one of us who benefit from this system to look backwards in discomfort and to have the difficult conversations. To relearn our shared history and to ask ourselves: What are my blindspots? What specific actions will I take to make this a more just world? Am I willing to engage and to make mistakes?”
