When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

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