There’s something demoralizing about having to make the case that you matter. Yet somehow, it’s all I’ve been doing since Friday night when the events in Charlottesville began. It leaves little time to process my own hurt and fear as a black person in a profoundly racist moment. Opposing that violence is in no way comparable to the violence itself, and it is disgraceful of the president to say so. Each time I allow myself to argue with an obdurate, defensive person about what happened in Charlottesville, or about what Confederate statues mean and why they should go, my own question becomes more obvious.

Source: Washington Post August 19, 2017 00:00 UTC