The Girl with the Listening Heart
The murder of George Floyd has awoken many white Americans to racial injustice that has been plaguing the United States for over 300 years. Police brutality, over incarceration of people of color, high rates of maternal and infant deaths for Black American mothers and many other issues are surfacing for the white community. I acknowledge that these issues are not new. It wasn’t until my freshman year of college when I took a class on power struggle and structure in a racialized country that I even began to grasp the reality of racial tension in the US. I am white and I understand that I do not know, nor will I ever know what it is like to be Black in the United States. I am unqualified to rally people and inform people on lived experiences of people of color in the united states. I am not trying to explain how racism should make any person in any circumstance feel, I am attempting to use my reading through the book of Psalms as a guide. Scripture makes very clear that God is a Go
