I’m seriously encouraged by the reaction to a response I wrote to this Jeremy Helligar piece.

Here’s a snippet, and a link.

When I read your essays, with all of the capitalization of White and Black and the rich passion so evident between the lines where you are compelled to write these words in this way, I feel hopeless…

There’s a larger discussion to be had about this, the intersection of how we use language, and perceptions of race. I’ll start it in a future post.