Quote, I Too

Tomorrow, I’ll sit at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed – I, too, am America. I heard a piece on NPR and it was another conversation about race. One Black man said, and I’m paraphrasing, “We don’t need another conversation. We don’t need to be ‘heard’ by White people and we don’t talk a lot about White privilege in the black community. We just want to get the same access to health care, equal chances when renting apartments or going for a mortgage and not to be discriminated against going for a job.” How we feel about injustice is important. But a conversation about race and a conversation about global warming and a conversation about sexual violence against women and children isn’t the goal. CHANGE is the goal. Equality is the goal. Justice is the goal. And it’s too bad equality and safety still have to be argued for.