To do the work of racial reconciliation is to take ownership of the marginalizing ways we see others who are in some form or another different from us. One of the biggest challenges in the conversation on race is our refusal to do the work of identifying and exposing our individual racial prejudice. We have been socialized to see people in certain ways. This is a problem for all of us regardless of our skin color. However, historically not all racial bias has the same social impact. The racial bias in the hands of people of color is quite different from racial bias in the hands of the dominant
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