“It will take real effort to heal this broken relationship; but we’d be taking a giant leap forward if white America acknowledged a painful truth: this country was built on stolen land and stolen lives.” – ‘Everything’s Gonna Be All White’ (Sacha Jenkins)

“Native Americans are the ones that were here first. White people like to forget about that; but no, that’s the reality of it.”

“Black people built this country for free, right? And without consent!”

“[T]here would be no United States without people of color. Yet the fruits of the democracy they’ve made possible—freedom, opportunity, and prosperity—, for the most part, still remain beyond their reach. That has to change. And a good place to start would be with our understanding of this nation’s history.”

Genocide and Slavery: At the Core of American History