Good post. One thing that isn’t here that I think needs to be part of the conversation (and granted, this is solely based on my personal experiences talking and writing about this issue to my white, mostly male friends), is the conversation around how to persuade others to want to understand, to want to empathize, to care and feel motivated to open their minds enough that they will hear what you’re saying without defensiveness or defaulting to outdated beliefs…. I feel like most reasonable people get that this is a real issue now. But we talk to our friends and these people do not WANT to change, they do not WANT to care about black people, or minorities, or global poverty or how ISIS stems from a combination of all sorts of systemic factors that Americans are largely responsible for (not solely and I’m not suggesting majorally responsible… but we DO carry a large responsibility). Because in all my years experience in change management and information technology — the one thing that I can attest to be true with humans is they will not change because you want them to or because you put a gun to their head or for any other reason than because they decide they want to change their own beliefs. How can we engage with these people and persuade them to see that change is their individual responsibility? Is it even possible?