Sometimes it hurts that I'll never fully fit in. Not with everyone, at least.
Last night, there was a friendly tease that *of course* I'm still a tourist even after 5 years. It came from the same source of ignorance that hurts many immigrants to Canada. Only, there's still racialized privilege in my experience: Presumed rich. A traveller.
Ultimately, such moments deepen my ache for how hard it is for so many.
Everyone just wants to feel at home.
But oh, does our world ever love to exclude.
Exactly that. Many of my fellow Canadians aren't racist or xenophobic, mind you. Like me, many feel that if you come to Canada and want to be part of our big messy colonial-haunted project, welcome!
But I also knew faaaar too many fellow white Canadians who were only further empowered in their racism by US politics, and I listened to far too many firsthand accounts of immigrants made to feel unwelcome.
We could do *so* much with our world if we all just led with kindness, eh? 🕊
@MLClark @HopeSeeker
Yes. Yes. The way of the Bodhisattva.