If you’d like to learn more about systemic racism in our country, please watch Oprah’s special, Where Do We Go From Here. It is airing nightly on all the Discovery networks.
I learned so much about struggle and the lives of black people in America from the one hour I watched. The panelists spoke of not only the collective fear their community shares because of poor policing and racial profiling, but also about a system that is set up to fail black people time and time again. I’ve learned about this issue through my work, but to hear it from the mouths of people who have lived their entire lives within this broken system was powerful.
I can’t begin to understand the black community’s struggle because I was born white. I never had to have conversations with my children about what to do if pulled over by police or how to be polite to a person who wasn’t polite to them because of the color of their skin. I was born with privilege and so were my children. We are all awakening to our privilege and want to help by learning more.
If you want to understand more about the Black Lives Matter movement and about racial inequality, please tune in to learn more. The commercials were pretty remarkable too.
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