I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

by Austin Channing Brown

Unsolicited confessions inspired by a sense of guilt are often poured over Black bodies in search of their own relief.

Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible—an upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins.

Because at no point in America’s history did all white people come together to correct racial injustice. At no point did all white people decide chattel slavery should end. At no point did all white people decide we should listen to the freedom fighters, end segregation, and enact the right of Black Americans to vote.