Introduction

Over 75 years ago, at the end of his memoir Black Boy, Richard Wright (1945/1998) wrote that both white ¹ people and people of color will be destroyed by white supremacy:

Yes, the whites were as miserable as their black victims, I thought. If this country can’t find its way to a human path, if it can’t inform conduct with a deep sense of life, then all of us, black as well as white, are going down the same drain.

(p. 383) The United States seems to be well along the way of realizing Wright’s bleak prophecy. A human path? Not likely. Instead, it seems that all of us—including the two white people writing this book—are going down the same drain.