Through dark eyes in a dark face--
And this is what I know:
That all these walls oppression builds
Will have to go!
I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind--
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that's in my mind.
Then let us hurry, comrades,
The road to find.
-- Langston Hughes
Stella Adams is Chief of Equity and Inclusion at NCRC.
This article originally appeared as a blog post at c.org/white-place-wrong-type/
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