As our community and country wrestle with individual and systemic racism, it is critical for each white Vermonter to acknowledge the racism within ourselves and the ways we benefit from it each day while this same system brutally murders and denies resources and equity to Black, Brown and Indigenous Vermonters. I have dug into racial justice for years and I am still racist. As Dr. Ibram X. Kendi explained, “The heartbeat of racism is denial. By contrast, the heartbeat of anti-racism is confession, admission … (read more)
