Another 2018 piece it has been valuable to revisit is @DrIbram on racism and denial: “When our reality is too ugly, we deny reality. It is too painful to look at. Reality is too hard to accept.”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/heartbeat-of-racism-denial.html …
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I learned a year after we published it that he had received a cancer diagnosis while we were working. (Luckily, he said that dealing with me was a welcome distraction -- just what I aspire to be.) Here's the essay he wrote about his illness:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/ibram-x-kendi-what-i-learned-cancer/579928/ …
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