Leadership Starts at Home

The world desperately needs UN leadership to combat systemic racism. That cannot happen without tackling the systemic racism within the organization.

To Americans and to an international audience, exclusion of systemic racism from the trial of Derek Chauvin also suggests that existing mechanisms of policing and prosecution are viable, effective, and necessary without transformation. 

Today, France’s roman national, is longer the exclusive province of a homogeneous population reframing past atrocities to whitewash the sins of their fathers. Instead, France’s diversity compels renegotiation of French identity.

We recognize something boundless — over the moon, even — in a mother’s love. But the license we give to ‘white motherhood’ tacitly sustains a web of white supremacy.