john a. powell Opening to the Question of Belonging
\u201cRace is a little bit like gravity,\u201d john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings. Race is relational, he reminds us. It\u2019s as much about whiteness as about color. He takes new learnings from the science of the brain as forms of everyday power. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to imagine doing things one at a time,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not, \u2018how do we get there?\u2019 It\u2019s, \u2018how do we live?\u2019\u201d