So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

While some had chosen to turn away, upset that this unpleasantness had invaded their space of cat videos and baby pictures, others drew closer—realizing that they had been missing something very important all along.

You cannot put chains around the necks of other human beings or slaughter them wholesale, while maintaining social rules that prohibit such treatment, without first designating those people as somewhat less than human.

Money is also a social construct—a series of rules and agreements we all made up while pretending that these pieces of paper are worth our entire lives.