"I was confused, dazed, numb.

“I was confused, dazed, numb. A few minutes later stomach pains kicked in. Racist shit is hurtful, insulting, and intolerable. I was uncomfortable with white colleagues. Resentful. I couldn’t talk about the verdict. … White Americans really believe that their anger over the acquittal matters to us. They think that because we don’t challenge their racism that it doesn’t exist.” Wista Jeanne Johnson writes about the Diallo verdict for the Village Voice.