If I love You, I Cannot Lie To You

Our discourse cannot be whole if we can’t tell the truth about what Black Lives Matter is now.

This is a mural of Virginia Taylor, former head of The Northwest Dispatch and my first writing mentor. I was reading the article about Jill Abramson, and I thanked god that, in the summer of the year 2000, when her health was going sideways, Virginia took the time out of her life to kick my ass as a writer. She was blunt, direct…