that conversation, about the violent way this country was created on the backs of Black and indigenous people. It’s the only way we’ll heal, Porter said in the July/August issue of ESSENCE magazine, on newsstands now.“We’re like a dysfunctional family who keeps secrets and doesn’t want to talk about it,” he said about an extremely partisan America. “They don’t want to talk about the actual thing.
They want to act like the actual thing never happened, so that there’s never a healing that can take place.”“White people are so afraid that we want vengeance that they can’t acknowledge the truth, but we don’t want vengeance,” Porter continued about Black America. “We want our rights.
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