![]() Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. Whatever you’re ignoring is only going to get worse. And I think that whatever you are ignoring is not going to go away. And you may not want to go into that basement, but if you really don’t go into that basement, it’s at your own peril. And the work is never done.Īnd that’s what our country is like. Isabel Wilkerson: Our country is like a really old house. The Great Migration gave the world a bounty of brilliance - from Michelle Obama and James Baldwin, to Diana Ross and John Coltrane - while also planting harder foundations that continue to touch on every American in some way. ![]() She is herself a product of one of the most underreported stories of the 20th century which she chronicles - the exodus or Great Migration of six million African Americans from the south to the north of the United States. It’s a carrier of histories, stories, truths that help make sense of human and social challenges newly visible at the heart of our life together. ![]() ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson points this out as she reflects on her epic book, The Warmth of Other Suns. Krista Tippett, host: You go to the doctor for anything, and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history - and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. ![]()
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