A few quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. on White Liberalism to start us off....
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
"I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
"I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
We are in a Climate Emergency. The Land Defenders and Water Defenders are doing what they've always done, they are trying to protect the Earth. Wet'suwet'en is unceded territory. If you are visiting or living in British Columbia and posting photos and videos of happy times of "Beautiful British Columbia" enjoying the land, the water, the air and the climate, yet you remain quiet on the raid on Wet'suwet'en land and the attack on Wet'suwet'en People, and quiet on the fight to save Old Growth Forests you are a colonizer. If you enjoy the splendor of the province but remain quiet on the systems of oppression against the people of Turtle Island and the land itself, you are a colonizer and you are complicit in these systems of oppression. Do better. Be better.
Joy