Hello, my love. We're going to dive right in this week because we're going to get really real about racism and our thoughts because this conversation is so needed.

As a white Latina, working every day to understand, examine, and unlearn my own anti-Black

racism, to unpack and get clear on my own daily privilege, the privilege of

passing and code switching and moving seamlessly between the white world and the Latinx world.

I offer you the following with a full heart,

knowing I'm going to F up,

knowing I'm not going to do it perfectly.

Knowing that some of you will turn away and unfallow and disregard.

Some of you will critique me and tell me about how I'm doing it wrong, which I welcome

from Black Folks 110,000 percent, which is not a request for your labor in any way,

but if you have something to say I want to hear it, and some of you will think that this is right on.

Above all, I am here to own my privilege and to speak up and be a voice, a voice speaking to what's happening right now.

The murder of black men, black people in this country, the 400 years of oppression,

the inequalities in health care, housing,

the unfair exposure of black folks, black children, to toxins, like lead that is found

so much more often in the places in which poor folk, black folk, live in this country.

As a health care provider, as a life coach, we need to be speaking to these things and it is incumbent upon me to

use this platform that I have been so privileged to have in this world to put out a call to action for all the

white and white passing folks listening to step into the fray and to learn

about our own privilege so we can start to look racism and white

supremacy right in the teeth and of course to pass the mic back to black folks and

I'll share some resources at the end and on my website on the page for this episode over at VictoriaAlbina.com

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