While you love in theory, people are being murdered in practice. While you love only with words, people are being shot with bullets. While you enjoy a chat about how scary the world is with your friends over a glass of wine, immigrant children are being held in cages, separated from their parents. All of this is happening every day and yet there are those who are offended by anyone who calls attention to the fact that there's such a thing as privilege. There are those so attached to the rightness they've experienced as part of their privilege that instead of seeking understanding and exploring their disconnect, they would rather silence the voice that threatens their comfort. This is the America we all share and yet only a select group experiences and feels the effects of its social injustices, because not everyone has the luxury of living without being touched by them.
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 94-95
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