When a White Person Receives “the Talk”

Sam Heath
Sam Heath
Nov 5 · 14 min read

Race Relations Begin with Empathy

I was an ignorant, arrogant, Southern white boy in college when I was asked to consider W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous statement: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” I could not have told you what he meant by that, other than that he was saying something about race and racism.

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Husband, father, teacher, Charlottesville resident. Speaking truth to power.

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