[Fuusmchat] Fwd: Outrage

Mon Jun 1 08:58:10 CDT 2020

If you aren't familiar with Timber Hawkeye and Buddhist Boot Camp, you may
want to be....This was a particularly moving blog entry worth sharing.
Please take the time to read. And if you're interested in reading more,
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Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Outrage
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June 2020

When I’m on a book tour, I sleep on couches or in guest bedrooms of
different host families along the way. A few years ago, a kind gentleman in
North Carolina was generous enough to host me in his home for a couple of
nights. He was elderly, African American, and disabled, but he wanted to
attend my book talk even though it was late in the evening and he had
trouble seeing at night, so he asked that I drive us to and from the event
in his car. After a great discussion at the bookstore, we were so engaged
in conversation on the drive back to the house that he forgot I was relying
on him to give me directions. As soon as he realized it, he said, “Oh, we
were supposed to turn left back there,” so I made a U-Turn in the middle of
the street and he reacted as if I had just hit a pedestrian and driven
away: he had a death-grip on the door handle with one hand, grabbed the
center console with the other, and screamed, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?”

I immediately pulled over because he was obviously distraught and said, “I
turned the car around because you said I had driven past your street.” He
just looked at me and said, “Oh, you don’t know about DWB, do you?”

That night I learned the difference between white privilege and white
ignorance. Yes, I was ignorant that DWB (Driving While Black) means you
can’t pull those kinds of maneuvers on the road because if a certain type
of cop sees a person of color doing the same thing, that driver would get
pulled over so fast, head slammed against the hood of the car with arms
handcuffed behind his back, and I didn’t even think twice about making that
U-Turn; that is white ignorance. Privilege is when you think something
isn’t a problem just because it doesn’t personally affect you.

Well, racism is a problem whether it personally affects you or not, and it
isn’t limited to job inequality or persons of color serving prison
sentences four times longer than a white person who had committed the same
crime. Racism is bigger than my parents forbidding me from dating anyone in
my teens who wasn’t white and Jewish, to which I obviously responded by
dating the darkest-skinned black Christian I could find, racism is a matter
of life or death.

A few days ago I tried starting an online discussion about how we can
manage our outrage over the brutal murder of George Floyd. Many people
responded that I have no business talking about racism because I’m not
black (which is a fair point, though I’ve had my share of death threats,
hate crimes, and even swastikas carved on my locker in High School simply
because I'm from Israel), and other people said it would be irresponsible
for me to ignore what’s going on and keep posting as if nothing happened
(which is also a fair point). Others understood my effort as an ally to
bring mindfulness to a very sensitive and chaotic situation, but too many
started arguing with one another using racial slurs so disgusting that I
finally deleted the online posts altogether.

I not only understand people’s anger, I feel it coursing through me. I
watch the protests and rioting that remind me of the aftermath from the
beating of Rodney King back in 1991, furious that we’ve made so little
progress in the past 20 years. Silent and peaceful protests haven't worked,
and when worldwide violent riots don't affect change, the mistake I made
was trying to put out the fire while it was still raging. Any fireman knows
that you sometimes have to let a blaze burn for a while before it can be
managed.

What I try to remember whenever I feel this level of rage within me is that
if I start hating the haters, I become a hater myself. And since everyone
feels their hatred is justified, I turn to the Buddhist Eightfold Path of
mindfully responding to what we witness rather than reacting to it. We are
taught to be tolerant and accepting, but tolerance doesn't mean accepting
what is harmful!

George Floyd was choked to death by a police officer kneeling on his neck
for eight minutes and forty-six seconds while George was crying, “I can’t
breathe!” Three other officers stood by and watched as George’s body became
unresponsive. Regardless of your personal opinions about what happened, I
want you to set a timer for eight minutes and forty-six seconds to truly
grasp how long that is.

Tempting as it may be to respond to violence with violence, I’m still going
to risk saying this too soon because it’s better than speaking up too late:
Buddhism is about controlling your emotions, which doesn’t mean avoiding
your emotions; feel your temper, understand your temper, but don’t lose
your temper. Don’t stoop to the very violence we wish to eradicate. As Ruth
Bader Ginsburg says, “Reacting in anger will not advance one’s ability to
persuade.”

This brutal crime was videotaped and is rightfully causing outrage all over
the world. This police behavior is not okay. Things must change. So be
enraged, be furious. It’s not just about bringing those four officers to
justice, it’s time for all of us to really question what is just and hold
everyone accountable.

Eight minutes and forty-six seconds. Set a timer. Let that sink in.

As we chant in Zen temples every morning all over the world: greed, hatred,
and ignorance rise endlessly; I vow to abandon them.

Your brother,

Timber Hawkeye

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