Losing Weight a Poem for Juneteenth

The George Floyd public murder — re-awakened me to the reality of systemic racism – and the need to re-examine my own self in this regards… As a white man born in America my enculturation included bits of subconscious racism that I thought "was not a part of me, "how could they be, "I'm not racist." And pretty much that was true: I did not cross the street; I hired employees regardless of sex and race; dated, kissed, laughed with, had a friend or two... and politically called for greater...