What I Learned About Whiteness, Blackness and Real Accountability

The first time someone said to me, “Yeah, you can’t fuck your way out of racism,” I was stopped cold. It felt like a slap, a truth so sharp I didn’t quite know what to do with it. For three months, it simmered in the back of my mind ...

It only took 10 seconds for educator Jane Elliott to demonstrate how racism lives in all of us.

She asked a room full of mostly white people:

“If you would be happy to be treated as this society treats our Black citizens, please stand up.”

No one stood.

She waited a moment and repeated the q...