Kat Gale’s Reviews > Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem – A White House Reporter's Chronicle Featuring Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, and Valerie Jarrett > Status Update

I want the next generation to know that the fight is bigger than any of us. In the end, it is about helping others.

When we are too tired to carry on, love brings us back center and motivates us to keep pushing.

Our young people are acting for our national interest every day. We often overlook them, equating their youth with inexperience. Assuming their efforts are simply symbolic gestures. But that does them and us a disservice. For the entirety of this country's history, it has and always will be the young people–the nameless, faceless young person–who are the vital change agents.

History has shown us, over and over, that it takes a normal person with courage to truly make a difference. It's not always the visible heroes. It's the unnamed, many in our own homes, who come out en mssse to truly make a difference.

The best way to fight oppression is to do it together and to win for everyone. Entrenched power doesn't concede easily and we win only when we are organized, coordinated, and advancing the interest of the collective...our collective orientation drives us to pay attention to the gaps as we answer the question: Where is the unmet need?

"Black women will continue to show up. We will continue to show our power," Waters King told TheGrio. "But now it's time for America to show up for us."

Hair discrimination is race discrimination and it is a long-standing, legal practice that further codifies racism. As Asamoah reminds us, discrimination in any form is ultimately a net loss for everyone.

If there is one take away from this book, it's a call to action to treat our Black girls as who they are: girls. They deserve patience, cultivation, care, and support like any other girl and yet the research is clear: Black girls are subject to a painful adultification bias that deprives them of investment and makes them far more likely to end up disciplined or even incarcerated.

[Microaggressions] are often snide and subtle–but always devastating. They are devastating because of what they imply about you–your talent, your professionalism, and, ultimately, you're worth.

For all our progress, America requires‐hell, demands-structural change, which will follow only after a shift in our politics. That change will never happen without achieving deeper understanding among and between white and Black people throughout America. Without healing and reconciliation, how will we move forward as a country?