We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, itโs our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim weโve left behind
Michelle AlexanderThere can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.
Michelle Alexander