Dare I

When Yeshua is colonized,
sanitized and whitewashed
where is Christ?

Dare I ponder the experiences 
of the oppression into which 
he was born, lived and died.

Dare I wrestle in prayer
with corrosive assumptions
of his “whiteness”.

Dare I encounter him 
in the leper, the outcast
and the Samaritan?

Dare I risk embracing Christ
in the full humanity of people
in Black and Brown bodies
and be transformed?

Dare I be Christ
in solidarity with them 
by resisting all forms
of racism and white supremacy.

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