This is a huge moment in our country’s history for many reasons: the fascist assault on our democracy, undeniably evil and unstable president, the nation changing victories in Georgia, and more.

Huge events all.

But I believe this moment is most critical in our long struggle for racial justice. 

I think and deeply believe it is root and branch time for racial justice.  Root and branch is an old country saying about clearing land for crops as in–we will fell the timber, clear the land down to every root and branch. 

It is time for us to do that to white supremacy and white nationalism.

It is time for us to get on our knees working to root out every vestige of oppressing people of color, especially Black people who’ve suffered their own unique hell in American history. 

Black people and our children have been leading us to fundamentally challenge this disease on the nation’s body.

Now it is so clear what white supremacy costs us, the evidence so compelling. The domestic terrorists who assaulted our democracy for the president were all motivated by race hate.

The Violent Right is in a race war against a democratic, pluralistic, diverse, just society. 

I could write for days and nights about the awful ramifications of race hate, including deluding much of the working class. 

It is now very clear our nation is under internal assault in furtherance of a racial civil war.

All of us, especially us white folks got to get serious about rooting out racism.

I’m not talking about understanding one another or getting along or charity or even working together.

I mean the hard and dirty work of fighting white supremacy and nationalism with intent to destroy it root and branch.

I mean defending Black people, fighting against mass incarceration, official brutality, and fighting the Radical Right .

I mean taking leadership from Black people, supporting Black candidates, buying Black.

I mean destroying white supremacy.

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