Along with that movement, though, we’ve inherited the trauma of regular occurrences of a stolen life and the reminder that our grief is often tethered to the whims of white people.

From Amy Cooper to Derek Chauvin, the need to assert dominance and declare any space a white space is the violence that is all too familiar to Black people, generation after generation.

During this pandemic, we’re reminded that Black people have been up against an equally life-threatening opponent — racism and its ability to go unchecked.

I describe the Six Characteristics of Urban Trauma in my book of the same title.

When you see hundreds of people blocking the roads of your city center, you can attribute that to the anger of Urban Trauma.