Program Aims to Teach White Liberals How to Talk About Race

David Campt, founder of the White Ally Toolkit, laughs during a recent workshop at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver, Washington. – Erica Morrison/OPB

“Before the election I perceived, ‘Oooh there’s a whole bunch of angry white people, and Trump represents their anger. And man, they are about to lose big,” he said.

“After Trump won, I realized we’ve had a massive white ally fail, because look what happened: He won by essentially 77,000 votes, and there’s a whole bunch of ‘woke’ white folk who didn’t talk to people in their own family about a candidate who represented something a lot of people felt but was clearly at least racially problematic.”

Campt wants to change that.

To read the rest of this article and listen to the interview, go to: Program Aims to Teach White Liberals How to Talk About Race, by Erica Morrison, for Oregon Public Broadcasting, on NPR’s Morning Edition