"Even when beer does support Black individuals, it frequently presents only the most polished and seamlessly assimilated Black folks as valuable to the industry." https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/8/10/the-time-is-now-part-two-why-beers-culture-and-workplace-practices-must-change

I think quite a lot about this, as someone who is conspicuously "palatable to white people," and whose cultural assimilation has resulted the amassing of significant educational privilege and a series of gilded platforms from which to efficiently play the part of the token.

I've struggled mightily with how to reconcile the work, the realities of power and privilege, the pursuit of efficacy, higher ideals and a lifetime of being told in no uncertain terms that I am not "black enough" and will, of course, never be white.

I believe that privilege is a responsibility and my own privilege is something I know that I navigate unsuccessfully much of the time. I'm trying, though. I'm not sure "try" means much in the larger calculus of activism and advocacy, but it's a place to grow from.

Lots of listening and reflecting to do...