Looking at people as your people and my people is a huge barrier to healing in our nation.

We build wall instead of bridges when we over value what is normal to us and undervalue what is outside of our own normal.

While slavery was outlawed a long time ago, the impacts of slavery are felt today in large ways.  Looking at the timeline of slavery and it's evolution brings that impact to our front porch quite easily.

What can be thought to be a quailifiying statement, actually normally signals that you are about to say something racist, inappropriate, or offensive.

3 Questions we should never ask, and 3 questions we should be asking.

The reality is that in most cases, your struggle would have been more significant if you were in the same position and also were a person of color.

We too often allow the exceptions to the rule blind us to the humanity of those the world does not consider exceptional, and relieve us of our personal responsibility to change unjust structures.

I have noticed how the desire is often to seek common ground. To be able to say, yes, I’ve felt that too. But when dealing with matters of race, we need to be careful not to rush toward common ground that downplays the reality of people of color, and exaggerates the pain of our own experiences.

Why it is extremely rare for black people to be racist.

Seriously, Stop touching people's hair.