Thank you!

Although it’s not always easy, I try not to get in the gutter. The first time I received a hateful email, I was devastated. The words seemed to reverberate from my laptop — each word cut like a knife and I could feel the heat of the person’s rage and hatred. I quickly deleted it and have continued to do so with every subsequent email. Every nasty Instagram comment and racist tweet has been met with a swift deletion and the perpetrator has been quickly blocked. I don’t respond or try to convince them otherwise because I don’t think that my response would be successful in doing so. In fact, I think responding to such comments would only be more painful for me.
I Get a Lot of Racist Emails and Here’s My Response
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Maia Niguel Hoskin, Ph.D.
Victoria Strake
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Oct 22, 2020
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Thank you! I'm sorry you've had to pay an emotional cost for the crimes and sins of others. I'm sorry you still have to pay it, and that there are so many other ways Black people are made to suffer. You do such important work! I have faith in the wisdom and power of kindness and I believe the courage you are showing is building that better future.
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Written by Victoria Strake1.7K Followers
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Essayist, former scientist, trans woman. Striving for actionable methods of peaceful revolution — relationships, community, mutual aid, subsistence, science.
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