Dear white friends, countrypersons: welcome. Pull up a chair. Consider this book an invitation to the table…The room where this table sits is a safe space, by which I mean a safe space to learn things you’ve always wondered about...
-- Emmanuel Acho (Introduction)

Importance: These opening lines help to set one of the primary tonal modes of the book. The main intended audience for the book is white people. Acho wants the readers to feel welcomed, but he acknowledges the fact engaging in anti-racism work is going to be uncomfortable. Acho urges the readers to accept that discomfort, as the work of anti-racism is morally imperative.

The question of whether to use black or African-American is ultimately a preference, one that helps a person present their identity to the world. Each person you meet might not have a preference, but maybe they do.
-- Emmanuel Acho (chapter 1)

Importance: In this chapter, Acho discusses the subject of labels...