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They want to believe their proximity to people of color makes them immune. That if they smile at people of color, hire a person of color, read books by people of color, marry or adopt a person of color, we won’t sense the ugliness of racism buried in the psyche and ingrained in the heart. White people don’t want to believe that we sense the discomfort, hear the ignorance, notice the ways they process race, our bodies, our presence. We know them; we know they are racist.
Our only chance at dismantling racial injustice is being more curious about its origins than we are worried about our comfort.
For only by being truthful about how we got here can we begin to imagine another way.
what it would take for reparations to be made.
Fortunately, dialogue isn’t the only way to participate in the creative work of justice and reconciliation. In fact, I suspect that other actions—marches and protests, books and Scripture, art and sermons, and active participation in coalitions seeking change—are equally transformative.
At no point did all white people decide chattel slavery should end.
the handful of white people willing to release indifference and join the struggle.
