Op-ed Article in Montclair Local

Mo Schlick writes, “As Americans we inherit and pass along to each generation a culture sharply divided along the lines of race and ideology. Regardless of where we stand politically, we tend to take this division as an immutable fact of American life – as if we don’t really expect it to change. 

Racial inequality we shall have with us always. Even the fiercest warriors for social justice have been known to sigh: maybe not in my lifetime. … We’ll trust time to magically handle what we never seem to entrust to ourselves – citizen-to-citizen racial reconciliation.  

But what if this generation of Americans could be the first to reimagine what racial reconciliation means today? What if racial reconciliation was not some imagined dream state, but a verb – an interactive process communities could experience together as a choice?”