A Writer's Notebook, Day Six-Hundred-And-Fifty-Nine

I am not always certain how to take action, though I have been educating myself of late.  I am not talking about the larger actions we are seeing now, but the more all encompassing daily actions that it is important to confront.  For me, one of the most important parts of this is in attempting to make certain that I support economic entities that are owned by people of color, and also, perhaps more importantly, attempt to influence the entities I am involved with to contract with businesses owned by diverse communities.  In all honesty, I find it difficult at times to raise this issue myself, because of my own ethnicity, and because I do not have a great deal of clout in many of the places I am speaking of.  I believe strongly that it is important for change to happen at a level that requires the integration of our society on an economic level as well as in the other ways we are speaking about.  This is not simply because it will help to create avenues for greater economic prosperity but also because changing who is in business together will create reverberations of other sorts.  Many institutions are in the midst of looking at their behavior and internal communities.  I know that my high school has been going through such changes, as have other institutions I know.  I think it is integral to consider in such cases not just the behavior of those within the institution but also the character of the organization as a whole and its behavior in the world at large.  Their are easy ways to make it appear that things have changed, but what needs to happen is mpv9ng past that towards the deeper solutions.

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