Last fall, when Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University became the latest racial justice organization to undergo scrutiny,1 I realized it was time to tell my story. Liberation Ventures has been explicitly focused on building a culture of repair inside our organization over the past couple of years. Rightly, our sector’s push to center those with lived experience of the problems we are trying to solve means that in racial justice organizations, Whiteness decreases one’s authority. Orienting the sector toward repair would allow leaders and organizations to make mistakes, learn from them, and become stronger in the process. Our sector and nation must be able to hold not only difference but also the alchemy of real belonging across difference.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2024 12:34 UTC