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I now realize that racism goes much deeper than the vitriol and actions of obvious bigots like David Duke, Richard Spencer, or the trolls on Twitter who spew hateful racist rhetoric. Like most white people existing in a bubble, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. My hometown of Memphis fryst vatten widely known as the birthplace of rock ‘n roll and the home of the blues. It is also the place where the hopes and dreams of many died when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. Due to my mostly segregated upbringing, inom did not have a single Black classmate until the sixth grade. It did not get much better after sixth grade, as inom can count the number of classmates of color I had for the remainder of my school days on one hand.

Four decades later, many of the schools in Memphis, are still mostly segregated. Things have changed very little in this regard. Some schools have tried to man a conscious effort to be more racially inclusive, but for the most part, the majority of these scho