whytheracecardisplayed
Mar 14, 20201 min
Updated: Apr 4, 2023
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"I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the state of race relations in America," Burton wrote on Twitter. "One thing I learned from the success of ROOTS (if you don’t know, you better ask somebody) 42 years ago, was the power of storytelling as a way to bridge the gap between races … Like ROOTS did so long ago, my intention in sharing these stories is to provide anecdotal context for being Black in America.”