Understanding Racism - Allegories - A Gardener's Tale

I keep going back to this video, where the public health researcher Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones tells 4 stories that help explain the different facets and fallacies of racism.

Dr. Jones was recently interviewed for an NPR story about CDC's resistance to examining its own institutional racism as a former employee of 14 years.

Her own work was on racism and public health, and she says she felt thwarted and undermined in her attempts to get the agency to address these issues. She says after a lunchtime presentation she gave on racism, she was asked to remove references to how racism " 'unfairly advantages other individuals and communities' off of my slide because that made white people uncomfortable."

Allegories on race and racism

• Japanese Lanterns: Colored Perceptions (starts at :53)
• Dual Reality: A Restaurant Saga (starts at 3:16)
• Levels of Racism: A Gardener's Tale (starts at 6:59)
• Life on a Conveyor Belt: Moving to Action (starts at 17:17)