Overview
Find some space in your day to sit in prayer and reflect on the questions below. You might want to record your thoughts in a journal.
- What is my earliest memory about race? About my racial identity? Looking back, what early messages did I receive from family and larger circles about our group and other groups?
- As I think about my racial identity, I notice the feelings that come up. Where in my body do my feelings arise? If that part of my body could speak, what would it say?
- What’s good about being my racial identity?
- What are the costs of my racial identity?
As you pay attention to your own racial identity and the racist society we live in, consider taking a daily inventory:
- How has my racial identity shown up today?
- What did I notice today that was a product of white supremacy? Did I notice anyone disrupt it?