The national tragedy of more drug overdose deaths, suicides, and homicides won’t be solved “if we have to look at each other through the prism of race,” activist Bob Woodson says.
“There are people who are profiting from the grievance of our society, and we must challenge these racial profiteers,” says Woodson, an author and founder of the Washington-based Woodson Center.
Some “try to promote” the racial challenges in America, Woodson says, citing two examples.
“Black Lives Matter … comes along and collects $100 million in white guilt money,” he says. “Ibram X. Kendi at Boston University collects $48 million to do anti-racist research.”
In Woodson’s view, “race has been a distraction” to addressing the real problems confronting poor communities.
If a fraction of the money given to “anti-racism” initiatives instead was put…
