Destructive Power of Despair [NYTimes.com]
A police cruiser burned in Brooklyn on Saturday during a protest against the killing of George Floyd. Credit - Jordan Gale for The New York Times Despair has an incredible power to initiate destruction. It is exceedingly dangerous to assume that oppression and pain can be inflicted without consequence, to believe that the victim will silently absorb the injury and the wound will fade. No, the injuries compound, particularly when there is no effort to alter the system doing the wounding, no...