the challenge
I challenge you to be uncomfortable.
Why?
Because:
Comfort breeds complacency.
Contentment breeds complacency.
Complacency breeds stagnancy.
For us, for you, being comfortable
is easy
passive
secure
and safe
I challenge myself
I challenge you
I challenge us
to be uncomfortable
because
because suffering still exists,
because people are still dying from AIDs,
because New Orleans is not new,
because poverty still exists,
because 48 million people don’t have health care,
because children are still dying from hunger,
because labor organizers are still being murdered,
because women are still raped,
because youth are still incarcerated,
because workers and families are still unjustly deported,
because our country is in a constant state of war,
because compassion is rare,
because bombs are still being dropped in Palestine,
because mother earth is crying,
because living in dignity has not been attainable,
because we live in a state of terror,
because sex slavery is still being used,
because hate is still being preached in Christ’s name,
because education is not a right,
because apathy is deadly,
because Ward Connerly is still alive,
because Tibet is not free,
because racism didn’t end with Martin,
because women are still paid 75 cents to the dollar,
because colleges are so blindingly white,
because the KKK still exists,
because people are still in the closet,
because homophobia is violent,
because Amerika is a hegemony,
because oppression is real,
because my back can’t carry this world,
because we all need to if we are to survive.
So…
Are you ready to take the challenge?
