If you have recounted history and how this country was literally built on the backs of Black people, and if you have witnessed the injustices and brutality prevalent in our society today, I cannot imagine for a second that anyone would tell Black people that we do not have a reason to be angry. That we don't have a reason to be frustrated, afraid, and skeptical of any partnerships formed with those in the white community. Yet, as inconceivable as it is to me that there would be those who deny the stark evidence of brutality, racism, and bias, the reality is that there are still so many in denial of it. There are still so many who choose to deny the Black community the history we have come from, the loss of life that has been as a result of historical and modern-day lynchings, the public displays of racism that are just a Google search or (Facebook) comment away. They choose to discredit an entire people group and the lives of every civil rights leader our country has ever known.
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 63
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