And the And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

My name is John Wood Jr.

I'm a national ambassador with an organization called Braver Angels, which happens to be the largest

grassroots bipartisan organization in America dedicated to the work of political depolarization,

basically helping us re-establish relationship with each other across political, but also racial and other pertinent divides in American life.

A little while ago, I wrote an essay that appeared in persuasion called Remember Martin Luther King Jr.

And in that work I illustrate the contrast between the philosophy of the Baird Rustin and leaders and members of the nonviolent movements of the 1960s, and the ideology of anti-racism,

as articulated and explained by Ingram X Kindi and others.

In the essay, I try to make the point

that nonviolent seeks to engage. the

whole person in his or her totality on the other side of difficult

of difficult questions of justice, prejudice and politics. of Dr King termed agape love but what you could also term goodwill that the moral strength

of nonviolence lies in the fact that it seeks to win the opponent over and to reintroduce the enemy in a social context to the shared fabric

of community, what Dr. King would have termed the beloved community, a place

where we arrive through reconciliation and challenging one another with truth through a spirit of

goodwill. I draw a contrast in that piece

between nonviolence and anti-racism because while anti-racism and non-violence are in

some respects linked in history, you can look at them both as being a part of the Black Freedom tradition, if you will, the overarching historic struggle for equal rights,

to equal opportunity, and for the advancement

of the African-American community.

While nonviolence and anti-racism

stand in some sense adjacent in that history,

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