Let me begin with honesty: I don’t know if going silent in this moment is helpful. I don’t know that a non-black person posting a black screen on their Instagram makes me feel safe, or hopeful, or seen. It is a gesture, sure. But what comes after? Audre Lorde said: “You’re silence will not protect you.” Silence, indeed, can sometimes be a kind of violen…
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