Magnificent Midlife

An incredibly powerful interview with Kimberly McCormick talking about understanding, acknowledging and taking action concerning the Black Lives Matter movement. Kimberly works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Georgia, is a singer/songwriter, and runs a growing community supporting diabetics. We met in a marketing group on Facebook where I found her to be an enormously inspiring speaker with a powerful way of getting past white defensiveness about our complicity in anti-black racism. So I asked her to come and talk to me so I could share her clarity, wisdom and powerful message. We talk about: The sadness in the Black community and the roller-coaster of emotions at the moment The impact of 400 years of oppression today The relief that finally people are paying attention Trying to understand the weight of the emotion, both sadness and anger within the black community Being able to accept when Black people don’t want to talk about what’s going on Moving through White fragility and no