Read "The Laughter" by Sonora Jha online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The blackface incident did what it had to do. The video was in the hands of the student activists and had been shared around campus-and beyond-by the time I awoke with a piercing hangover. I had silenced my cellphone, in anticipation of the madness, but even I was shocked at just how mad everything was, and how quickly that madness had descended, even on a Sunday.
A local reporter had left a message on my phone, asking to talk about what had happened at my party. Betsy MacDowell had called, sounding stricken, begging me to talk to people, provide some perspective, some sanity.