'I am so incredibly proud: not of my country, but of the people fighting to make it better.'
, books by Black authors, art supplies, Band-Aids, and—of course—masks. "We keep us safe," goes a common protest chant, and it never feels more true than when you're watching a group of people gather around to tend to a stranger pushed to the ground by a baton-wielding NYPD officer.
I've been offered water, snacks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and—on one occasion when I got separated from a friend in—a place to use the bathroom and charge my phone, all by people I'd never met before. I remain in awe of the ways, large and small, in which I've been welcomed to a fight I'm long overdue to join: the generosity of spirit I've seen on display at protests has made me fiercely, intensely proud of America in a way I can never recall being before.
It's important to note that this summer's organized resistance against the state's racism is nothing remotely new: Black Lives Matter protests and marches have been going on since 2014, and I had the information and resources to involve myself in the fight for racial justice long before it became de rigueur to share a hashtag on Twitter. I don't blame Black activists for wondering
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