So You Want to Talk About Race

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

reflect on me, since none of us are race representatives, nor is any individual responsible for someone else’s racist ideas. And I’ve come to see that the movement from racist to antiracist is always ongoing—it requires understanding and snubbing racism based on biology, ethnicity, body, culture, behavior, color, space, and class. And beyond that,

The perverse thing about our current racial structure is that it has always fallen on the shoulders of those at the bottom to change it. Yet racism is a white problem. It reveals the anxieties, hypocrisies and double standards of whiteness. It is a problem in the psyche of whiteness that white people must take responsibility to solve. You can only

If you wish to get more intellectually daring, here is another step you can take. Read or listen to some of the more radical takes on race, whatever might be outside your comfort zone. Recognize that you don’t have to agree with them. But try to spell out in your own mind why somebody might possibly believe and promote those claims. If necessary, w