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Enough Is Enough: My Personal Commitments
Photo by Stephen Maturen | Getty Images What our country is going through right now with regard to race, continues to go through, and has been going through since its founding is unconscionable.
It is gut-wrenching to know that George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor—and countless others—were murdered because of the color of their skin and that racism continues to infiltrate every part of our country. The pain that I personally feel as a white person pales in comparison to what others must feel knowing that it could be their son, their brother, their uncle, their husband, their father, their cousin, their sister, their mother, their wife next. … Read More
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The Link Between Registering Voters and Racial Justice
Image from this Etsy shop You all know I’ve been losing faith in the United States.
Luckily I’ve been slowly finding my way back to hope.
I recently listed to this podcast with Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of Between the World and Me. He says, “I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but I see hope. I see progress right now, at this moment.” He goes on to explain that it finally feels like “the battle is legitimately joined.”
I made a list of my personal commitments that align with helping to build a world where there is “liberty and justice for all.” I want to hold myself … Read More
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How to Build the Habit of an Equity Lens
Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. You all know I’m losing faith in the United States as a country that can truly deliver on its promise of liberty and justice for all. And I was already feeling that way before this most recent rash of senseless Black deaths. Again. It’s an agonizing Ground Hog Day. Over and over again.
How long must it go on before we actually do something to stop it?
There is a parallelism to what happens with mass shootings. When it happens, there’s massive outcry. But nothing really changes. And then it happens all over again. (Whereas when it happened in New Zealand, they managed to ban assault … Read More