I believe that Black lives matter and I also advocate for all lives. Anytime someone wants to yell "white lives matter!" as a comeback to any talk about Black lives, my natural response is "They absolutely do." The difference is that this country wasn't created at the expense of your life. We didn't hang you from trees. We didn't steal you from your home and bring you to ours to serve us, to be raped by us, and to be sold by us. You haven't had to live in the United States with the reality that only about 70 years ago were we given legal freedom to eat where we wanted. Having legal permission is not the same as being allowed to by individuals and communities. Those are just facts. Forget feelings. Those are the facts. If the tables were turned, if my Black privilege was instrumental in keeping you from feeling safe and truly a part of this country you helped create, and you finally found your voice to make sure people knew something had to change, I would probably feel a sense of discomfort as well.
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 98
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