All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—and Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives

by Andre Henry

unity isn’t possible, necessary, or even desirable with everyone. We actually don’t want unity with our oppressors. We want freedom.

the kind of unity we need is the unity for struggle. I mean a struggle against white supremacy that is based on wise, broad, strategic plans to disrupt the flow of racist power, to replace inequitable structures with equitable ones, and to make racial justice our common sense. I mean mobilizing a critical mass of nonviolent actors to stay in the struggle until victory is won.