Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

by Mychal Denzel Smith

Mark Carson and Dionte Greene were killed in the same years where outrage over the deaths of

But their names are not included in that ever-growing tragic roll call. They

And when we learn that a person doesn’t fit the default

assignation of sexual identity, we have to decide something almost instantly: Are they no longer worthy of my sympathy?

Then later I learned what gay meant, and subsequently learned it wasn’t something you wanted to be. The