“When we name the huge costs and disparities that result from practices embedded in white supremacy beliefs, we bring to life an awareness of the practices, not the practices themselves. With greater awareness, we can seek to eradicate them. Communities that don’t collect or track data on race in education, housing, employment, and more might find it easy to say that they don’t have problems with race. However, with the statistics gathered by Equal Justice Initiative and other organizations, it’s clear that these problems do exist, but there is no way to talk about them without it being dismissed as anecdotal.”