My Black is Ordinary
by M. James Cooper
Our reaction to any chaos,
Any attack,
Any dis-order is not unique to us and us alone.
In fact, violence, self-hate due to dissent and frustration is a natural response to the stripping away of freedoms, the tying of the hands, the hardening of the heart, the abandoning of the soul. And we respond in kind and sometimes with kindness; despite it, we are human.