To talk about race, you have to talk about your differences. To talk about race, you have to talk about, to some degree, deconstructing the myth of the melting pot, which has never fundamentally been true. To admit that a big part of our history has been plunderous and violent and rigged against people of color. Were ashamed of our collective guilt. We would have to admit and to grieve for whats been done. We would have to acknowledge our own daily complicity, and to acknowledge that we are tied to the history of racism.

Renegades by Barack Obama