Reply #32: No - we absolutely wouldn't.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

And I don't disagree with how you put it that anger is going to be a result. Unfortunately, anger is mutually exclusive with creating an open environment to have the exactly the kinds of discussions that need to happen to move BEYOND anger and into solutions.

Any discussion like this is going to put someone immediately on the defensive. If we want to move beyond that, we need to talk about what's happening NOW, what needs to change TODAY, what we need to do GOING FORWARD. Which unfortunately also can't happen because there has to be an acknowledgment of how we got to today in the first place.

I'm solely pointing out the conundrum here. We're saying we want an open environment to discuss race frankly, but we're not at all capable of doing what it takes to create that environment.