Liz's article, commencing with a call to action via an epigram by Neil deGrasse Tyson to "get smart," is a brilliant personal and professional cautionary tale which all must heed. It is instructive to understand that no matter the changing and unchanging of different geographic demographics, whitelash rears its very public head:  at rock concerts during which the confederate flag is raised; when African American leaders are mass murdered in their church; where in HAWAI'I, racism is manifested in passive-aggressive whispers and gestures.  It is present where every day, a black person, whether a minister or fast food worker, is pulled over by a law enforcement officer and is forced to comply quietly and meekly, enduring humiliation just in case the officer is a racist and has license to murder. Re-energized acts of racism and all forms of bigotry necessitate the call to "get smart" by informing, volunteering, engaging on every level to inspire the human race to "get smart' again. IMUA