Instructions for living a life

Every day, every day a reminder that people in your industries, people you know by professional association, are more likely to defend and excuse casual white supremacists than they are to admit your humanity.

Boys will be boys, teens will be teens, don’t ruin their lives, you were young once too.

Every day, every day another video and another photograph, evidence of how little your lives mean to photo editors and homepage editors and foreign correspondents.

Black and brown and broken and and beaten and bloody bodies all over the timeline, all over the front pages, in the service of narrative but of course, I have friends in that country. This hurt me too.