Taking Practical First Steps Toward Racial Accountability

The first time I can remember talking about race with a family member was brief. I was playing with a globe when I was four years old and reciting the names of each country that my finger landed on. I mispronounced “Niger” and my dad, startled by my pronunciation of the hard ‘g’, promptly corrected me. I asked why we don’t say what he told me not to repeat and he responded, “That’s a mean…