words.
"We have to understand what that hate is. Hate is never about the object of the hate but about what is happening in the mind of the hater. It is in the darkness of that space that fear and ignorance merge and morph. It comes out in an impulse to mark and name, to deny and diminish, to exclude and threaten, to elevate the self by putting down the other.
What happened on that bus was bigger than just that bus; it was a reflection of where we are."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hate Takes the Bus: A University of Oklahoma Fraternity’s Chant and the Rigidity of Racism
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