The Condition of White Life

You cite this essay by claudia rankin m that she wrote in the new york times magazine after the charleston massacre. The condition of black life is mourning, she said, bluntly, mourning. At any moment she might lose her reason for living. Though the white liberal imagination likes to feel temporarily bad about black suffering, there really is no mote if empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black on you can be killed for simply being black....