I'm trying to make sense of something that's been bothering me for a long time: why do good people, doing good work, keep running into the same friction? Why does collaboration so often feel harder than it should?

We're seeing this dangerous double standard play out in threats to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore, tactics already used in Los Angeles and D.C. He says the target is 'crime,' but the bullseye is Blackness. This administration isn't interested in safety—it's interested in control.