The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey defines an antiracist ally as “someone actively making choices to challenge the systems of racism that all of our lives are embedded in and that are embedded in all of our lives.”
My mother, brother, and I were looking for something to do on a stupidly hot July afternoon in Fayetteville, NC, outside of Fort Bragg where he was stationed in the early 2000s.
When someone is struggling with some action that caused harm to someone else, I often find an eagerness to tell me just why it was the only right action.