"... it can never be that easy" by Meredith Hudson Shot in 2009 during protests following the killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland's Fruitvale station, the ignorant pride of self-defined "woke" white people was palpable even before the term was coined. I was struck by this man, smiling benevolently while basking in the vibrating power of the angry crowd demanding justice, his concept of what solidarity meant about as strong as the cardboard his sign was made of. Years later, finding this photograph, I was filled with the sadness of knowing how little has changed, and with the anger at the flimsy enduring notion that solidarity is somehow enough. It wasn't enough then, it's not enough now.