this woman’s work

It’s titled Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns about Race by Sharon E. Rush. It’s about a white civil rights lawyer who adopts a black daughter. It’s incredible. It’s one of those books that take me forever to read because I have to keep setting it down and looking off into the middle-distance to ponder something the author has said. Between needing to do that and the usual reading interruption breaks (the dough must be punched down, the dog must be let out, Noah must show me the Pokemon trap he just built) I think it’s going to take me a good long time to read it.

It’s such a powerful book! It reminds me of Drublood because of the author’s bravery. She is willing to talk about race and white privilege and she is stalwart in her convictions, just like Dru. I think that Dru is so amazing! I know that people feel slammed by her point of view sometimes but I think she’s dead on. And because she knows that people might feel slammed and she is still unwilling to back down, she is my hero. Let me point out, too, that she is harder on no one than she is on herself and that kind of unflinching commitment is awesome. Now awesome like 80s valley girl but awesome as in inspiring awe. People like the author of this book and people like Dru remind me that if I’m pretending like nothing’s wrong, then I’m part of the problem. I am inspired by these two (using Sharon E. Rush’s term) “white people of goodwill” and will endeavor to become one, too.

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