native-americans in our declaration of independence referred to as savages. in our constitution black people are fractions of human beings. white supremacy has always been a problem in our american story. we have seen it from the civil war to the civil rights movement. from the red summer of a hundred years ago to charlottesville. from the lynching of people of mexican descent in texas 101 years ago to the massacre targeting latinex people in el paso, texas, this saturday. to say this is to speak the truth plainly. because without the truth there can be no reconciliation. james baldwin wrote that it is