Darnisa Amante-Jackson and her husband were excited to be on an eight-day drive from New Hampshire across the country to see the Grand Canyon two years ago. On the outskirts of a small prison town in Colorado, they pulled into a small gas station to fuel up their Jeep. As Amante-Jackson recounted during her keynote address for MIT’s inaugural Day of Dialogue, there was a sign on the gas station door that day which read, “No cloaks, no hoods.” Then, the owner came out holding a shotgun and asked who…
