No child ever picks up a coloring book and then colors a person in the book "black" or "white" Even a child sees the shades of color that each person carries.
In this episode, we share about our separate experiences in Ethiopia and Kenya when we were both corrected for not understanding that "white" and "black" are not good terms to describe all the many colors of people.
Our society is stressed out for many reasons. One reason seems to only be speaking binary code about everything. It must be this or that. It must be us vs. them for everything.
We talk about how our 2nd Constitution (the one we use now), and that African Americans (we talk about the problem with that phrase too in this episode) were only 60% of a person compared to "whites". But we also talk that women didn't have many rights either.
But the system of laws has evolved and changed for the better. Will we be able to see the changes needed today?
We need to be aware of racism as both systemic and systematic. We need to check our own hearts. There has never been a perfect side to anything, but we must start walking in a greater love and a greater understanding.
