"I struggle to sort out how race impacts my life and mediates who I am and how I move through the world. In many ways, this confusion mirrors our culture’s crisis in learning a language and understanding of race that feels true to the complex, often conflicting experiences that so many people have. It seems easier to run from race because it defines us in such crude, stark terms: either white or of color, oppressor or oppressed. In this flight, I fear that, along the way, we lose a sense of who we are and the possibility for a future that is deep and rich."
from the Defiance, Ohio website:
"I struggle to sort out how race impacts my life and mediates who I am and how I move through the world. In many ways, this confusion mirrors our culture’s crisis in learning a language and understanding of race that feels true to the complex, often conflicting experiences that so many people have. It seems easier to run from race because it defines us in such crude, stark terms: either white or of color, oppressor or oppressed. In this flight, I fear that, along the way, we lose a sense of who we are and the possibility for a future that is deep and rich."