Dear Hateful White People, I'm Sorry

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Apr 14, 2024 · 5m

Dear Hateful White People, I’m sorry.

I was wrong about you.

For a long time I thought I hated you.

I may have even made you feel that way, too.

You would pop up on my social media feed, drive past me in traffic, say something at Thanksgiving, or I'd overhear you at a restaurant—and what seemed like rage would rise up quickly within me. I thought it was abject hatred.

Today I realized that I don't hate you, I feel sorry for you.

I grieve over whatever in your story made you this way; for the painful path you must have walked to arrive here so fully wounded that you now feel so compelled to…