A fantastic blog post from a fellow PCV that puts many things I have been thinking about into beautiful, compelling words. Check it out! Click here if you are not logged into WordPress, but would like to give it a read.
It seems like every time I go online another tragedy has struck – a mass shooting, a terrorist attack, a black teen killed at the hands of a white cop, or some ludicrous Donald Trump antics. I see people, and consequently their words and their actions, being driven by fear. Fear of guns. Fear of mentally ill people with guns. Fear of police. Fear of black people. Fear of terrorists. Fear of those who are different than “us,” whoever “us” may be. Most of these fears are rooted in real, true danger. Black people fear cops because they are far more likely to be treated unfairly and met with violence than their white counterparts. We fear terrorists because they are killing people around the globe all the time. We fear those toting guns because schools and malls and movie theaters are being shot up and it seems to have become…
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