Running while white…and black

Ahmaud Arbery murdered by White Supremacists while jogging in Satilla Shores, Georgia on February 23, 2020. Not until the video surfaced and went viral were the perpetrators arrested.

The horrible hate crime against Ahmaud Arbery, like all the cases of citizen and police brutality against people of color captured on video in recent years, has provoked me to think about my long, uncomfortable, painful, shocking and shameful journey to absorb the lessons of racism in the U.S. As a white woman, an immigrant (from Canada with its own history of racial annihilation and discrimination, a granddaughter of white settlers on…