Growing up as a white suburban kid, I was taught to believe civil rights were won and everything was fine. This is sadly and obviously not the case, white supremacy has always been inherent in our culture and country. Our country’s founding enlightenment ideals helped justify race-based slavery. This racist line of thinking has then been baked into our education, our government, our healthcare and housing systems, and, of course, our law enforcement. We can only successfully address the biases in these larger systems and structures when we are also addressing these same biases we have internalized in ourselves. We must confront these problems in our own lives and continue to work on them - they don’t just disappear once acknowledged. We learn racism (and misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, etc) by simply being American, and now we must actively unlearn it. Please continue to fight and support those who need supporting most, even after the protests end. - Ned