doing better one day at a time. As the Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington reminds us with one of his Diverse Community Foundations, “It is not our fault, but we must accept responsibility.” I couldn’t control how I was socialized or what racist beliefs I unconsciously absorbed in my youth. It is not our fault that we learned and believed the underlying racist messages that permeate our society, but we now must take responsibility for what we learned, honestly own and interrogate all that we were taught, and then commit to a daily practice of eradicating these racist beliefs and actions from our lives.
