When did you become "white"?
Its an odd question when it is actually framed but it is a deep truth that needs to be confronted. In the system of whiteness there is a requirement to release your true culture and check your humanity at the door in order to gain riches. It feels very much like what good is it to gain the world but lose your soul.
I wonder how often white people think about their own indigeneity? Do you ever question where you are from, what practices did you have before being American? Every group of people are indigenous to some land. Which is yours? What was your language? What were your customs? These are questions to open you up to you ancestral healing.
Much of our disconnect is the disconnection from your humanity and when that happens you cant see the humanity of anyone else. If you are white person in America seeking to do anti racism work and equity work it would behoove you to seek your humanity FIRST. You can't be useful if you are simply empathetic for what has happened to others. Its best to be sympathetic and remembering what you have been disconnected from opens the soul to deep healing.
On this episode we are discussing how St Patric is a tool utilized to further the myth of whiteness within America. We discuss the old Gods of Ireland based on the storytelling of Candlelit Tales and how the Irish lost their identity within the system through forced assimilation and othering and in turn turned form the oppressed into the oppressors.
Part of ancestral healing is learning that your ethnic culture very much attaches you to an origin story and reminds you that you are more than a construct created for and economic system. The more the construct of race spreads the further the energetic fields take over identity and erases truth and connection.
These conversations I have are created to reconnect with your true self and your story in order to release the systems that hold us all down.
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Osin and Patric: Breaking down the St Patric myth