Dear White Friends: Don’t Complain to Me About the Riots

You won’t be pleased with my response

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I have been blind. Ineffective. Ignorant.

I am ashamed of how little I understood about racism until just a few years ago. I knew it existed, of course, but I was a privileged white woman with my head in the sand who believed that we were living in a country that had largely…