Wendell Berry may have written eloquently and said good things, but I doubt he was sincere about dealing with racism. At least it wasn’t terribly important to him.
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article244191622.html
In The Unsettling of America, I remember him praising the Amish and specifically pointing out their whiteness. And much more recent behavior - as noted in the article above - should be kept in mind.
We need to be *anti-racist* if we want to be free. No tokenism. No relying on words alone.
#WendellBerry #KY
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