WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

The article presents opinion on questions about privilege, race and the value of African American life in the U.S. According to author Isabel Wilkerson, Africans Americans must know in their hearts that they can survive anything if the ancestors could survive the Middle Passage. Educator Melissa Harris-Perry states that she felt a need for someone to want the African American baby to live as they witnessed the indifference of a legal system that permits African American death to go unpunished.