akil, there's lifetimes of suffering pouring from the paragraphs you've written and i'm grateful for your passion to bother and risk putting yourself out here for the sake of widening the scope of understanding we're capable of in this moment. i think i'm genuinely no longer a white liberal, though all those hesitancies are there in the privileged life i've lived, but i feel some other sense emerging as i read your ideas and listen and listen to so many voices opening out now. i do feel the tension of the violence favoring trump's chances, but i hear your advice above for white people to examine our feelings now so we see how we are still infants at coming to terms with being despised by our government, and still the threat to our bodies is nil. and see if we can transcend the blindering paradigms we've been formed by and fail to question to the point where we actually wake up. furious as you are, you are speaking to us with a depth of not just honesty but intellectual force that takes a lot out of a person's daily equilibrium.
akil, there's lifetimes of suffering pouring from the paragraphs you've written and i'm grateful for your passion to bother and risk putting yourself out here for the sake of widening the scope of understanding we're capable of in this moment. i think i'm genuinely no longer a white liberal, though all those hesitancies are there in the privileged life i've lived, but i feel some other sense emerging as i read your ideas and listen and listen to so many voices opening out now. i do feel the tension of the violence favoring trump's chances, but i hear your advice above for white people to examine our feelings now so we see how we are still infants at coming to terms with being despised by our government, and still the threat to our bodies is nil. and see if we can transcend the blindering paradigms we've been formed by and fail to question to the point where we actually wake up. furious as you are, you are speaking to us with a depth of not just honesty but intellectual force that takes a lot out of a person's daily equilibrium.
Once again, a brilliant piece of writing.