It was the Democratic Party's "Summer of Socialism," as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that morning, and Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, was standing on a chair outside a bar, rallying the comrades.

I hope my story gives others reason to think carefully before allowing a therapist to help them sever a family relationship.

CNN omitted context in an apparent attempt to exploit a death to peddle a favorite claim that America is a racist country with a racist past.