Gatekeeper or Gate Breacher? You Decide.

There's an old story about a rich man who feasts every day while a man named Lazarus lies hungry right outside his gate. The rich man knows his name. He still does nothing. Trevor Went pairs that story with Octavia Butler's time-travel novel Kindred to ask a question that's harder to answer than it sounds: are you guarding the gate, or willing to break it open? This isn't about distant injustice — it's about the people already in your line of sight: the neighbor, the coworker, the relative whose comments you let slide. Drawing on Ibram X. Kendi's line between "not racist" and anti-racist, Trevor argues that staying neutral is still a choice, and usually the wrong one. If you've ever wondered what separates real inclusion from good intentions, start here — then ask yourself who you've been walking past.