The path to living one's truth is not an easy route for people and oftentimes when it's different from the majority of people around them, it can be seen as a threat. Even if only for the reason that is makes others confront their own fears, deficiencies, or stories. The unfortunate fact is that there are some who are so willing to do anything to preserve their sense of self and their truth, that they will choose to exert their belief in it even at the expense of someone else's humanity, and in some cases, someone else's life.
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 53
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