I've said it before and I'll say it again: since when did America give two s*ts about any of our experiences? If I missed the "people care about what happened to me because of my skin color" train, please let me know where that station was. It's a huge mistake to equate violent crime with being disadvantaged.
For whatever its worth, I attended, and cried at, Kelsey Hightower's life story. The goodness of someone making it out of a really hard situation is cool and inspiring, but the badness of crime being legitimized on the basis of someone's life experience is deeply upsetting and dangerous. There is also this tiny little detail about that idea being antithetical to liberalism itself, but we don't need to get into that.
For whatever its worth, I attended, and cried at, Kelsey Hightower's life story. The goodness of someone making it out of a really hard situation is cool and inspiring, but the badness of crime being legitimized on the basis of someone's life experience is deeply upsetting and dangerous. There is also this tiny little detail about that idea being antithetical to liberalism itself, but we don't need to get into that.