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Racists Anonymous!
Not sure how many Soylentils are subscribers, or regular readers, of Mother Jones, but there was this one weird article lately:
"Hi, I'm Bonnie, and I'm a Racist"
In Racists Anonymous, the first step is admitting you have a problem.
Welcome to Racists Anonymous, the brainchild of the Reverend Ron Buford, the church's pastor. Buford, who is black, was fed up with attending race talks where either he left feeling angry or white attendees left feeling guilty. During the presidential campaign, he watched Donald Trump and others sow racial division, and he decided to fight back. What would happen, he thought, if we treated racism like a disease, one that all of us suffer from?
Yes, a disease, and all you have to do it admit you have a problem!
The Reverend Buford hopes to ease these anxieties by bringing together regular people who have never had reason to confront their own conflicted feelings about race. "I don't think we realized it was really as bad as it was," Buford says. "We're going to have to talk about it."
Ah, free at last, free at last! I hope that all of our racist Soylentils can be helped by programs like this. Otherwise they may be helped by programs like the one Dylan Roof just went through.
