As someone who observes culture in all of its forms, if the past three years since the death of Trayvon Martin have taught me anything, it’s that people have found so many new ways to say “silence.” It is what is meant when we look at a peaceful protest and hear people say, “Well, why can’t they just do it more peacefully?” It is perhaps what I mean when I look at a text that I am not too keen on returning and text back: “I’ll get back to you in the next hour.” And it is definitely what is meant when Serena Williams is looked at, careless and immersed in joy, and told, “Be more ‘humble’.”
