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"I’m uncertain if it was a grown man calling out to his dead mother as he begged for his own life or the look on the officer’s face as I watched a video of the murder of George Floyd, but this incident of white on black brutality had a much deeper impact on me. Then came my friend’s Facebook post. I could feel the anguish in her words, the restrained anger and helplessness as she gave voice to what so many people of color were feeling.  As a black woman George Floyd’s murder struck her core in a way I will never be able to understand. I’m a white woman, an old white woman, who has borne witness to countless acts of white aggression toward people of color in my seventy-one years. A white woman who grew up insulated in a white world, disconnected from the world of black people as if it were not part of the world in which I also live.    

What I See Now: The Reckoning of an Old White Woman is a reflection on my lived experience spending half of my life in the segregated South as a white woman and how it shaped my views of Blacks and racism.  This book is the result of looking through the eyes of my heart, willing to see the shadow side of my thoughts and actions throughout my life. I do not assume my story is everyone’s story, but I do believe that an honest reflection of one’s beliefs about racism and the role one has taken in its perpetuation, or the fight against it, is a journey worth taking."

                                                     Excerpt from What I See Now