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This is always a starting point for meaningful change inside ourselves and our families and communities.

We pull up stories we've been raised on in the light of what we know now.

We see what was not being said.

Here are the questions we scarcely allowed ourselves even to think.

We recover lost chapters.

My colleague and radio on podcast, John B.1, has been doing this with the interwoven questions of what it means to be human and what it means to be white.

In a series called Seeing White, to which many people have turned in 2020, I think John has modeled something.

As a documentary investigative journalist who'd covered race with the best of intentions and rigor, he realized he'd been turning to others, people of color, to be searching about racial, rupture, and healing.

He then turned the lens back on himself.

So that's the conversation ahead between me and John B.1.

It starts simply tracing the racial story of our time through the story of a single life.

It's an exercise each of us can do, beginning with a curious eye on our childhoods and hometowns.

And if we do this, searchingly, it becomes a step towards a more whole and humane world starting with ourselves.

We don't need everybody to see all of this in order to change the world.

We just need enough of us.

And I do think there are probably more people than ever before that are recognizing these things and being willing to kind of do the work and being exposed to journalism, books, and documentaries enough to be able to see not only the way our brains work, but these stories that we've been taught, these narratives, that we can let go of them, and we need to.

I'm Krista Tippett and this is on being...

Don B.1 is audio program director at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, and he's host of the Center's audio documentary podcast, Scene on Radio.

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