Step 1: We admit that we have not been telling the whole truth of our past –– that our nation has become splintered and unmanageable.

The first step gets directly to the root of America’s insurance to deny its past. This denial is as much of the fabric of America as the acts being denied; it has been cultivated by the hypocrisy of the founding fathers to modern day textbooks. Acknowledgment of the inhuman treatment of black Americans is where progress can begin; without this one cannot follow the rest of the program fully.