White supremacy is a phenomenon that we cannot simply attribute to ignorance, bigotry and evil. All of these might be involved. But it goes much deeper, and yet that depth is also its ubiquity, the water we swim in, the air we breathe.

For me, just as scary as the things mentioned above, is the notion that we have so internalized and naturalized a dog-eats-dog system that we don’t have the faith or imagination to consider that on the other side of this crisis (hopefully one in which we act sooner to lessen the overwhelm on our quite pathetically prepared health system due to decades of privatization, and deregulation), there might not be something different, even better.