We cannot protect women from intimate partner violence until we stop treating battered wives as discrete hourlong plotlines instead of interconnected points on a millennia-long continuum. We cannot achieve racial equality until we stop giving twenty-two-year-old male comedians who believe in “reverse racism” as much credence in the “discourse” as we give black scholars and academics. We can’t save ourselves until we get comfortable with discomfort. The truth hurts. But the future we’re
