some_guy , 5 hours ago

Sonya Massey’s tax dollars had contributed to the salary of the officer who killed her. That’s the insanity of being Black in this country.

I found this incredibly moving. I can’t imagine how it feels to be on the wrong side of the birth-lottery (I’m a cis white male in America). It must be maddening.

This, too, is what it means to be Black in America: One Black woman has the chance to win the most powerful position in the world, while at the same time, another Black woman, even at her most vulnerable, wearing her nightclothes and headscarf, is perceived as a threat—and shot to death in her kitchen.

The contrast is so palpable. I feel like I need a drink to put myself to sleep. What an awful world.