Today's episode is a special edition of The Lindsay Elmore Show.

It has never been more important than now to hear from our black and brown friends about the experience of going through the world.

I think too often we don't want to have these uncomfortable discussions.

We don't want to press ourselves out of our comfort zones to identify our own racial biases.

However, if we don't have these conversations, it will never push forward

the dialogue that needs to happen so that we can truly get to a point where all lives matter. I said it on Facebook. All lives cannot matter

until black lives matter. And the disparities that black people face in America have never

been more on display than they are right now.

A lot of people said, hey, Linz, you know, you're showing your privilege by the way that

you have behaved during the spring and summer of 2020.

And I was quick to point out to those people. Listen,

black and brown people are not dying in excess now. Black and brown people have unfortunately

always died in excess because of disparities in access to care,

as well as the institutionalization of racism.

Here's the thing.

Most of us do not consider ourselves racist. We don't actively hate people who are a different skin tone than ourselves. But when I as a white person fail to acknowledge

that the system has been skewed against people

with black and brown skin,

I fail to acknowledge that there is a system-wide problem that needs to be fixed so that we actually

create parity in our access to health care, in our access to education, in our access to jobs,

in our access to jobs, in our access to opportunities, and our vision of the future can change.

I heard something profound the other day. Did you know that Jane Fonda has a black daughter? And she adopted this daughter

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