pilgrimage wasn't an outmoded and pious form of travel, but a timeless model of respectful and reverential journeying.
“Alicia Garza, the cofounder of the BLM organization, pushed back against that criticism in an interview. “Standing up for the rights of Black people as human beings and standing against police violence and police brutality makes you get characterized as being anti-police or it has you being characterized as cop killers, neither of which we are.… At the same time that we can grieve the senseless loss of life of five police officers, we are also grieving the senseless loss of life that occurred at the hands of police. Those things can coexist.”
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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