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Friends, many of you showed great care and empathy for the black community after the murder of George Floyd, seeing our tremendous collective pain. Please understand that the experience of watching people attempt a literal coup with little police resistance and few consequences
has been indescribably painful and infuriating in the light of the brutality that people faced for standing up to defend black life. Please understand that seeing domestic terrorists donning confederate flags and hanging nooses as the symbols of their "patriotism"--over and over
and over, and knowing that most STILL won't see the ways that racism is endemic to a populist sentiment that so many Americans enthusiastically embrace. Please understand that it is slap in the face, a gut punch, an opening of an very old wound that has never had time to heal.
Please understand how frustrating it is to know that in the space of public discourse and media reporting, none of these issues are the "main story." That what we see will be neatly excised from the narrative because of or inability to embrace the complexity and nuance of today.
I don't think anyone is surprised, but that does not mean the state of things is any less horrific, any less unjust, any easier to process. I am angry. I am hurting. I will need time and space to process today. I am not alone. Be kind to each other. The care you give matters.
