This is a community which, in some cases, can't e imagine wearing a mask (after all I might smudge my lipstick) for more than a month. If people's fortitude is that thin, well.

It's lifetimes centuries back. White folks can't comprehend racial memory. I can only imagine, I cannot know. But I will embrace the notion. It's not just the weight of right now. It's the combined and collective weight of a race. Such things are unimaginable, and if approached, way too hard to bear.