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However, the longest-lasting pandemic in this country is a virus not of the body but of the mind, and it’s called racism. I’m not sure if we can cure racism completely, but I also believe that as we rush to find a vaccine for COVID-19, we should be pursuing with equal determination a cure for the virus of racism and oppression. “The ultimate logic of racism,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “is genocide.”
person who is a little racially insensitive or ignorant and someone who holds deeply ingrained negative ideas about people of other races and ethnicities.
William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
“Change your thoughts and change your world.”
it’s that history has a huge part to play on what kind of America we live in now.
What you can do right now is educate yourself on the history of civil unrest, not just in America but internationally.
The premise of this book is about putting those issues on the table, about engaging with tough conversations, about white people having to sit with the discomfort, because that’s how progress is made.
Ending racism is not a finish line that we will cross. It’s a road we’ll travel.
