Beating the Racism Drum Will Never Sing Peace

I have decided to jump.
To walk myself home.
To validate myself.
To honor the government that exists within.
To rebel and declare I’m good here.
To risk not belonging to anyone until I am joined here.
I have seen many sides and chose not to take any.
This act of rebellion will be called many things.
It will be called privilege by the blind.
I know my removal is not born out of ignorance.
It is birthed from the desire for true peace.
And I need no approval to move here.
I am ok to say no more.
It is enough that I choose not to swim in infested waters.
I went within and used my heart as the litmus.
It told me there can be nothing new built while we scream over the ashes.
We cannot look ahead while we polarize more over our past.
I will not participate in anymore division.
And that includes the division cloaked as unity.
It includes directionless anger cloaked as a movement.
It includes forward movement that continues to walk backward.
I will not stand anywhere that positions another human in opposition to me.
I will not look at this problem with unmoved, fully-focused eyes and attempt to see my unified future because I know BASIC laws of the Universe declare this impossible.
We cannot see the solution with the same eyes so dedicated to the problem.
We are drawing definitive lines around the very thing we seek to leave behind.
You cannot tie any of us together while you declare who is outside of this.
Us vs. them will never unify us all no matter who is us and who is them.
There is no nobility in beating this drum until no one can hear anything but the beat of racism. There is no honor in magnifying the problem and there is no shame in leaving it with NOTHING to feed on. If we left racism behind and stopped singing its name, the room would remain silent, absent of its song.
You want to end racism, stop saying the word. Starve it to death. Say UNITY where you once said racism. Feed the future you WANT, not the past you don’t want.