I am a white woman who wants to engage in meaningful conversation on the challenges faced by Black Americans and what must happen next.
As I began to research the experiences of Black Americans, I discovered much I already know and much, much more that I didn’t know. The stories of everyday Black Americans are especially shocking.
Then I remembered a January 2017 incident when members of a white supremacist group plastered posters in several Texas State University buildings threatening, among others, Black faculty. At a department-wide meeting, talk turned to the posters. It was gut-wrenching. A Black professor, clearly upset, left the auditorium and I followed her. Through the tears, her anger and fear and pain were palpable. I embraced her and said over and over, “It’s not all of us.”
