00:00When we talk about race in this country, are we missing something fundamental?
00:04I think we are. I think we are not talking about the ways in which all of us have been situated to think through this lens in ways that compromises our ability to be fair and just with one another.
00:16I worry about how we talk about civil rights in this country. We've made it so benign. We talk about it in these celebratory ways, and you hear people talking about the civil rights era, and it's starting to sound like a three-day carnival.
00:30Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat on day one, and Dr. King led a march on Washington on day two, and on day three we changed all the laws and racism was over.
00:37And that's not what happened. You know, we had a generation of people, my parents were humiliated every day of their lives.
00:44Those signs that said white and colored, they weren't directions, they were assaults, they created injuries, and we haven't treated those injuries.
00:53I was crafted in a place where the first thing that I had to manage was the thinking, the presumptions around color, around race.
01:04We get this.
01:06We have to develop and train with them, and this is one of the things we never really did.
01:11Let's talk about this.
01:13We're going to be waiting for the first time.
01:16We've played the first place.
01:18We are going to be walking in the front of this month, and we are going to be at the start of this month.
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