Welcome to the thirty-first edition of The Bloom Briefing: Notes from the Resistance. In the wake of a Nazi rally and terrorist attack in Charlottesville, I have opted to simply write about racism and its effects on society. What follows below is not comprehensive. There are many more points one might make on this subject. Nor is it anything that hasn’t been said before. But with so much attention on the subject of racism, I felt it might be valuable to write down some thoughts about why I feel the fight against racism is essential.