LOIE
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- May 11, 2017
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AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE
I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.
I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.
I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.
In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.
I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.
I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.
An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.
As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.
It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.
Delores Paulk
I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.
I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.
I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.
In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.
I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.
I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.
An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.
As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.
It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.
Delores Paulk