A View From Juneteenth and July 4th, 2020
"...And there are days—this is one of
them—when you wonder what your role is in this country and
what your future is in it. How, precisely, are you going to
reconcile yourself to your situation here? ... And to be here means
you that can't be anywhere else..." James Baldwin, June
24, 1963.
Privacy contains some of the wellsprings of antiracism. The
privacy profession in the U.S. may well be racist, but we can make
it antiracist by taking off
the blinders that have protected us against dealing with the real
privacy crises that surround us. The largest of these crises has
surrounded us since before the country was
born, but we are able to stop hiding from it now if we choose
to do so.
