The Inner Life of Whiteness
Channel: Eric Gunther
Date: 19/05/2022

I've been listening and reading about what it means to be Black in America. As a good White liberal it would be easy to stop there, but I sensed that the path to any real inner or outer change lay deeper in the muck of my feelings about what it means to be White in America.

This poem is part confession, part indictment. It’s an acknowledgment that, until I let those big feelings in, nothing is going to change for me or my country. Above all, it’s an expression of love and my desire to keep on feeling and moving. I'm still learning, waking up, full of blind spots, but I'm ready to own the intelligence in my heart.

White friends, check in with your body as you watch this: Does it make you uncomfortable?  How? What are you feeling underneath? Be curious. And if it moves you in any way, please share it.

Written & performed by Eric Gunther
Produced & filmed by Jeff Lieberman @xercyn
Big thanks to @allrealmachina for all the love and support 

Deeply inspired and informed by the work of James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates,  Eddie S Glaude Jr, Isabel Wilkerson, Resmaa Menakem, Wesley Morris, Nikole Hannah Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and many others. 

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