Hi, this is Sean Elling, regular host of Vox Conversations.

Today's episode is a taping of a live event before a virtual audience Vox hosted in honor

of June 10th, the June 19th holiday celebrating the emancipation of the enslaved in the United

States.

My colleague Fabiola Sineas was host of the event and without further ado, here she is.

Hi everyone, I'm Fabiola Sineas and I write for Vox about race.

And this week I'm your host for Vox Conversations.

I think a lot about whether America can ever actually be an anti-racist country.

There was the murder of a half dozen Asian women in a shooting rampage earlier this year

and recently attention is being drawn to the practice of race norming through the NFL.

The idea that black NFL players have lower cognitive functioning than their white peers.

It feels like every day now I learn about a new atrocity committed by American institutions

and citizens against people of color.

In 2020 with the pandemic freshly upon us and following the police killings of Breonna

Taylor and George Floyd, many Americans took to the streets and protests for months.

They said enough is enough in that black lives matter.

White people in particular pledge to be better and do better.

Many started on anti-racism journeys to better understand how racism is embedded in this country's

institutions, laws and policies.

They set out to look inward and figure out how they enable racism and what they can do

to actively fight it.

Now more than a year since the start of the reckoning, I want to know how can we even begin

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