The work, she writes, demands truth-telling that “confronts the ways in which the past remains alive in the present,” how white supremacy is upheld both philosophically and culturally in institutions. It demands fostering a moral identity by “confront[ing] what it means to be a beneficiary of white supremacy and its legacy,” by working to eradicate white privilege and its manifestations, and by transforming institutions and spaces so that they can be “a sanctuary for all people.”60 In a church, she suggests, this last principle might look like interrogating choices in music, programming,
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