Your Community Is No Better Than Its Actions

Stop Pretending Bad Acts Don’t Match Your Values

Robert Couse-Baker, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

After every heinous act committed in America, there’s an inevitable press conference or news release from a public official stating this “doesn’t reflect the values of our community.”

Chatham, MA, is a small seaside town where two teenage white boys invited their Black “friend” to…