Race or Care? : How We Spell it Matters A Lot
A Poem by Elana Stanger, L.C.S.W. a.k.a. St. Angel
If we keep running the RACE,
We’ll never win,
If we start to CARE,
Let the healing begin.
RACE or CARE
It’s up to us;
Let’s choose to CARE
So we may learn to trust.
We all ask forgiveness for
Our heinous crimes
“I apologize,” we say,
And it even rhymes.
RACE PRIVILEGE is no more,
“Bye, bye,” we say
As we embrace CARE and KINDNESS
Love will light our way —
Truth and Reconcilliation
And for ALL a brighter day,
When the RACE will have ended
And we ALL come out to play.
— Elana Stanger, a.k.a. Saint Angel
It Takes Some Time – A Poem By Elana Stanger, L.C.S.W.
It takes some time
To say “I’m not White”
It takes some courage, too.
To take the wool from off our eyes,
I’ll say it
If you will too.
“I’m not White” —
Three simple words
Yet they’d mean so much.
To renounce our privileged class,
They’d say,
And in fairness, become one with the “us”.
Now, who is “us”, you’d like to know,
Though I suspect you already do —
It’s everyone that isn’t “White”;
It’s everyone but you.
Alone you stand, Alone are we
With our riches and our greed
Yet we can join the rest of “us”
And be a better “we”.
— By Elana Stanger, L.C.S.W. a.k.a. St. Angel
Please also see www.TheApology.org. This website offers a place to apologize for our racism and to heal so that we may bring the brighter day mentioned in the poem above. Thank you in advance!