Letter: Menacing rhetoric can be silenced by voting

Oct 31, 2024

“The pain, the violence, the tearing apart of brothers, the tearing apart of a nation. … Everyone can see it. This division, this tearing apart, is palpable, visible. It now surpasses politics. We are at a point of rupture.” These words by Patrice Michel Derenoncourt are cited by Edwidge Danticat in her book of essays, “We are Alone.”