We are recording this a week from when you hear it, which is always the case for dear Hank and John.

That seems especially important to note right now as things are bad in America right now.

And in the midst of dual crises of COVID-19 and also pushing back against the violence

that has been done and is being done to black people by institutional forces.

And so we don't know what the world looks like right now, but we are hoping very much

when you hear this that it looks better, but obviously worried that it does not.

Yeah, and one more thing I want to say about this, Hank, is that I often feel like the political

and social and historical context that white people bring to this crisis is inadequate.

And that's true for me certainly. And it's also true for many people I know.

One example of this among many is that most white people have never even heard of

the red summer of 1919 when state-sanctioned violence against black people and protests against it

occurred alongside a global disease pandemic. And so when a story is in the news, it's really

relatively easy to pay attention to it. It's easy to make statements about it and statements

in support of protesters. And I think that's very important. But I also think it's important to

pay sustained ongoing attention because long-term problems demand long-term solutions.

They demand that we make changes within ourselves and within our systems

not just over one day, but over an entire lifetime and over many human lifetimes.

And that's the commitment that we need to make to each other and especially to people

who have been disenfranchised and oppressed by the systems of power in the United States.

And that is the work of a lifetime, but let it be the work of our lifetimes.

Yeah. Okay, here's the podcast.

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