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The Problem We All Live With (Image taken by author at the Memphis Civil Rights Museum)It used to make me proud. And when it started, I believed it. That I was special. That I had “grit” and resilience. That I had “earned” my way up the “success” ladder. It wasn’t until years later that I saw the evidence, the violence. The ways in which they shoved respectability down my throat until it filled me. These institutions that shall remain nameless—not to protect them, but because they’re all guilt

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