She held her babies as they died. She held me to her breast and dried my tears. She cried as her babies had babies and their fathers went to jail. We are all children of her ancient family, the family descended from Africa, homo sapiens, the human race. We still refuse to recognize and accept all of our kinfolk, and we remain mired in mindless fear and loneliness, imprisoned in ignorance, as a result.
Racism is hatred, the opposite of love.
It is blindness, and we must open our eyes. We must find it in ourselves and expose it. Use the negative to create a positive. Find service work and do penance with your hands and your hearts, and finally your pocketbook. Then we can release it and we will be free to embrace our brothers and sisters.