White Lies and the Branches on the Tree of Systemic Racism

NPR reopens a case from Selma, 1965, that speaks to us more than ever today.

“It’s like a tree with branches, that if you cut off one branch, don’t mean the damn tree going to die. It’s just going to grow another branch. And that’s what’s happening. We need to find the root of all this.” — Joanne Bland, co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma…