Within passion debates over criminal justice, economic equity,

black lives matter, and critical race theory and colleges and schools,

the need to find common ground among Americans has rarely been more urgent than it is today.

In this episode, we share personal insights from an interracial couple and an African-American

scholar and poet.

This is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Richard Davies.

And I'm Ashley Melntite.

On this episode, we include extracts from two interviews we first released last summer.

Caroline Randall Williams wrote a widely read opinion column for the New York Times

that added fresh insight to the debate over Confederate monuments and how America remembers

its past. As a black Southern woman with white ancestors, she brings a passionate first-person

perspective. But first, we listened to the story of an interracial marriage. Errol Toulon was

elected as the first African-American sheriff of Suffolk County of New York. And his wife,

Tina McNichol Toulon, is a business development executive. She's white? He's black.

Both Tina and Errol believe that education is a vital ingredient in reaching a better

understanding about racism and the indignities that black Americans can face. I asked them how they

met. We met on match.com.

We actually took us a couple weeks before we met. But it was pretty instantaneous when we met.

I had been on match a long time. And I was the first person Errol met on match.

That's like me and my husband. Exactly same story. I had been doing online dating for ages

and having date after uninspiring date. And he had never been on a website before. And I was the first

person he went out on a date with. Exactly right. And I thought he was a fake profile because I didn't

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