Chip Gaines Speaks Out About Racial Injustice: "We Must Do Better"
Fixer Upper star Chip Gaines reveals how his eyes have been "opened" by the national reckoning on race which followed the death of George Floyd earlier this summer in the fall issue of Magnolia Journal.
“My eyes were opened, yet again, to the racial injustices that still plague our country today,” Chip writes in an essay titled "Time for New Rhythms." “I’ve spent the past few months listening and trying to sort it all out—overwhelmed at all the things I don’t understand. Overwhelmed by how far we’ve still got to go. Overwhelmed by how far I’ve still got to go.”
Chip admits that while he doesn't "have answers," he's continuing to do one thing: "listening."
"All I know is this: I must do better," he writes. "We must do better.”
Back in June, Chip and all six members of his family appeared on Philadelphia Eagles player Emmanuel Acho's mini-series titled Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man. Acho told the Gaines family that he thinks "it's best that we raise our kids to see color, because there's a beauty in color and there's a beauty in culture."
As he concludes his essay, Chip calls on Americans to accept "the rhythms of justice."
“I can’t pretend to know how all of this will play out, but I do know this: When a rhythm is disrupted and displaced, another one fills its place. It’s how the world works,” Chip adds. “This time, let’s embrace the rhythms of understanding, the rhythms of justice, the rhythms of hope, and the rhythms of love.”
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