Watershed moments
The learning I'm doing about anti-racism this week is bringing me a lot of American history. It's heartbreaking, tragic and inspiring:
I'm reading The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. It walks through the approach America took from slavery onwards towards its former slave populations, and how that morphed into a justice system that continues in the same spirit.
I read The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a tragic and powerful tour-de-force through the hateful biases that are now built-in to many American policies and laws, the generations of pain it caused, and the work that remains ahead to undo. (A long read, but worthwhile)
If we only have 17 minutes, Phil Vischer (creator of Veggie Tales) recently shared a rapid walkthrough called Race in America, that covers a lot of the same main points as the above pieces.
I listened to Ibrim X. Kendi and Brené Brown talk about How to Be An Anti-Racist. It's not enough to believe that you're personally 'not racist.' We need to move it …
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