White People: The Speeding Train or the Pond?

Karen Fleshman
4 min readNov 27, 2021

Recently, a new friend, a white man, convened a group of antiracist white people. He opened our call by sharing a dream he had that inspired him to bring us together.

He dreamt that he and a few other people were beside a speeding train. A white canister of toxic gas occupied every seat on the train. He and the people he was with recognized the train as tremendously dangerous and…

Karen Fleshman

Founder, Racy Conversations Inspiring the antiracist generation.