WHITE PEOPLE, IT’S TIME TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR

I AM A CRONE and was around the last time Black people were feared, and thus brought into white awareness. At times like these, white people, and white institutions, reach out to Black people they barely know or have forgotten about over time. As a crone, a Buddhist, and a practitioner of mindfulness, I choose to understand this reaching out toward us instead of reaching in to understand themselves.

Reaching in is the first obligation of meditation practice. It is by this practice that I have found space and freedom. I have