“I’m not coming,” she said, her voice trembling slightly yet remaining cold. “Tell her goodbye, tell her I don’t care—tell her whatever you want—but I am not, cannot, and will not come.”
When Black Americans talk about generational trauma and terror, this is what we mean. That energy you see at the Capitol is the same energy that burned down Black towns, lynched Black citizens, and ensured slavery, Jim Crow and segregation was encoded into American life.