Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're p…

- Emily Raboteau

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

- Emily Raboteau

I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it…

- Emily Raboteau

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice …

- Emily Raboteau

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

- Emily Raboteau

Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at the…

- Emily Raboteau

Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social instit…

- Emily Raboteau

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international strugg…

- Emily Raboteau

I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and …

- Emily Raboteau