How White People Compartmentalize Their Anti-Racism

Last Saturday, I hung a Black Lives Matter flag from our front porch. I watched it sway, excited we were making our family’s values clear. An hour later, I drove my children to a private pool where, after a three year wait, we’d recently been offered a temporary membership. The club hedges a neighborhood made famous by THE WIRE, one that is almost all-Black and poor. By contrast, the pool’s membership…