I am from Boston colonists who traded in Black bodies.
I am from Virginia colonists who fled religious persecution.
I am from Kentucky slaveholders and Quaker slave runners.
I am from a military father who sailed the oceans in big ships that smelled of oil, exercising our dominion in the air, land, and sea.
I am from the socially engineering racial segregation of Lakewood, California, “Tomorrow’s City…Today.”
I am from a widowed mother who dealt with her grief through service to the community and a sense of humor.
I am from “White Lives Matter More.”
I am from all those who pointed me to how I might live if I were to turn inward and look honestly at my life and begin to think anew and act anew.
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