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Discomfort continues to sit in my bones. It's hard to stand on the side of injustice that offers unwarranted favor. Harder still, to watch others accept it in silence, or even ignorant celebration, as there are people paying the price of unwarranted hate, fear, outright violence... As more still struggle to understand how to react. How to hold the fear, anger, and oppression they've been dealt and use it righteously. Hard feels like an unfair word for me to hold as I try to understand the situation. Many know further depths of the broken justice we've seen in our families, in our nation, and know it more intimately. If I've learned anything throughout carrying the life and coping of familial pain, the weight others carry does not nullify your own. We are all in the mess together; carrying our weight in different ways. What is important to understand here though, is that our histories and genetic make-up have tipped the scales. Violence lurches everywhere - across ...