I've noticed a lot of White people lately becoming more curious about racial injustice.
They are reading books and listening to podcasts and making donations and following Black voices on social media.
This curiosity is good. Continue to be curious.
And, your curiosity must go beyond the superficial kind to the deep, sustained kind.
Superficial curiosity has limited impact. Requires minimal investment. Is fleeting. Reeks of privilege.
Superficial curiosity sees incidents of racial injustice as if they were an interesting new Netflix series or a new technology.
Superficial curiosity thinks things are neat.
You watch a few episodes, buy a new gadget, and then your attention and interest expires.
Deep curiosity about racial injustice requires more intentionality. It requires examining your own motivations, your own experiences, your own evolution of consciousness.
It requires being interested in other people and events and histories and communities and relationships. . . on purpose.
On purpose!
Continuing to learn. On purpose. Continuing to grow. On purpose. Continuing to do better. On purpose
Committing to being part of the solution. On purpose.
Because if you're not deeply, intentionally, sustainably curious on purpose, then what's the point?