Message from Daniel L. Lombardo, President and CEO on Racial Inequality
My grandson recently asked me why people are saying that they “don’t like black people.” My grandson is 6 years old and African American. When you consider the innocence of children, you struggle with how to even begin to explain it all – the technicalities, the decades of repression and suppression, the harsh and sometimes brutal realities of inequality and injustice prevalent in our society. You obviously cannot get into a geopolitical dialogue with a child – you have to break it all down into the simplest terms. You say things like, “They just don’t know you,” “They don’t know all…