By Kiese Laymon, re-posted from social media.

Flags lowered for the death of the worst of white folks is pretty on-brand for this great again place. We are not in the midst of a coup, or a dictatorship. This has always been an offering under the guise of decorum. Peep the supposed left today genuflecting to a man who preached, “Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”

I wish that man was not killed. “Killing’s some wack shit.” But, more than that, I wish that man considered a public and private love for the most vulnerable parts of himself and his nation before he died. I wish the same for all of us. Please do not offer your good to great gobblers of grace. They eat suffering. They eat grace. They eat good. They bust us in the heads, gleefully dismantling the few protections the vulnerable have left.

But they got heads too.

Do not let them take our radical desire for common good. Please.