La June Montgomery Tabron: As we discuss the most effective ways to bring about racial equity, we need to make space for something else: racial healing.
and our enduring partisan political divide make the goal of unity under a set of universally supportive values seem farther away than ever.
Meanwhile, our collective, annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which occurred yesterday, is a time when many of us participate in service projects and reflect on what it would take to achieve racial equity in the current environment.But calling for racial equity is not enough without a different kind of conversation.
As we discuss the most effective ways to bring about racial equity, we need to make space for something else: racial healing. This is not because racial equity has been realized — far from it. It’s because it is clear that we can’t have one without the other. Racial equity, imposed from above, mandated by a court or lawmakers, will never stick unless there is also racial healing, grown from within and nurtured carefully.
Racial healing is what’s needed for a country that has been poisoned by racism for centuries. It is an authentic acknowledgment of and open grappling with the generations of trauma that have been visited on all of us — Indigenous, Black, Latinx, White, Asian — since long before our founding as a nation.
There was a moment following George Floyd’s murder in 2020 when millions of us, including many white friends and neighbors, really grappled with racism — some for the very first time. Many more people suddenly, viscerally, seemed to get it. In unprecedented actions across the country, we collectively felt the burden of our history, acknowledged the ongoing pain racism inflicts on our souls and demanded change. But the impact of that summer has mostly been measured in policies and police budgets.
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