Transparency is the idea that people’s behavior and demeanor — the way they represent themselves on the outside — provides an authentic and reliable … - Malcolm Gladwell

We need a better guide to facing giants — and there is no better place to start that journey than with the epic confrontation between David and Goliath three thousand years ago in the Valley of Elah.

If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way — who would like to have a set of associations with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites — it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life so that you are exposed to minorities on a regular basis and become comfortable with them and familiar with the best of their culture, so that when you want to meet, hire, date, or talk with a member of a minority, you aren’t betrayed by your hesitation and discomfort.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.