She could not attend, for instance, anything that advertised itself as a “collaborative” panel discussion on racial profiling and police safety. She had almost lost it when she was in fact invited to speak on one such panel. “When Black and Blue Lives Matter,” the panel was called, and the title alone had made Ruhaba stand up, shut her office door, return to her desk, and rip a random, already-graded student paper to shreds.
