Most people talk about politics as if the core issue is bad character, bad intentions, or bad people. But after years of watching movements rise, fracture, and stall, I’ve come to a different conclusion: Politics isn’t broken because people are evil. It’s broken because we don’t manage change well. In every other sector—business, healthcare, education—we accept that large-scale change requires strategy, sequencing, buy-in, and time. We study resistance. We plan communication.

I live at the intersection of a lot of identities. I am Black. I am queer. I am neurodiverse. Each of those realities shapes how I move through the world, how the world responds to me, and how often I am asked to explain my own existence. Fighting racism is not theoretical for me. It is personal, constant, and sometimes exhausting. But I also hold a belief that can feel unpopular in polarized times: I do not believe white people are inherently evil. That belief does not come