“Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. It’s snickering at a black joke. But passive racism? It’s noticing there’s only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It’s reading your kid’s fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why. It’s defending a woman in court whose indictment directly resulted from her race…and glossing over that fact, like it hardly matters.” ― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

It’s 2 : 21 PM on day 2742 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray,  have breakfast, read 3 John 1:4 and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised  $12 659 only $6 091 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.

Yesterday I finished reading Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult – a book that centres around a African American nurse named Ruth who is charged with murder after a Caucasian  baby dies on her watch but there’s a catch the baby’s White Supremacist parents specifically requested that Ruth be taken off their baby’s case – I love this book because it gives you a view of racism from all the different angles and I found that there are a lot  of parallels between racism and ableism because whether you’re black or in a wheelchair the burden of proof is on you, you have to work ten times as hard to prove you’re competent even before you do anything to suggest otherwise because the automatic presumption is incompetence.