A Quote That Mobilizes Me
"White folks in this country have had a racial reckoning in recent years, but it’s been more localized and less meaningful…than media depictions of that racial reckoning suggest. White folks are keenly aware…of their racial identity. They have a sense of what people think about white people.
"They are reckoning with that. All of that has [led to] feeling bad about being white, engaging in some antiracist behaviors, and the like. But a lot of this reckoning is starting on the bookshelf and ending on the couch. If that’s what you know about the state of reckoning, you don’t expect the state of reckoning to persist.”
Hakeem Jefferson (with Jennifer Chudy): "The Racial Reckoning That Wasn't", on NPR's Code Switch, June 9, 2021.
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