Racism Is NOT Just a Mindset

In 2020, Kennedy Mitchum, then a graduate of Drake University in Iowa wrote an influential letter to Merriam-Webster, asking that they include language around systemic racism and oppression — this when defining the word ‘racism’.

In her words, “I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,” she said. “There were a lot of…