05/31/2020
Dear America,
We have learned from the history books how this great country developed using bold, forceful measures to obtain resolve. Why would we not imitate this learned behavior?
How unsettling it is to realize and understand that property a (non-living, non-breathing, and non-feeling) thing is more worthy of heroic actions than that of a life. We can turn to the history pages to see that we mattered more when we were property, chattel. How sad.
It seems that even when we talk the talk when activists are seated at city coalitions and use vernacular like structural change, systemic racism, implicit and unconscious bias, police accountability, political disenfranchisement and the list of academic words swell, change is still slow and incremental at best.
Last night, I watched as a white news reporter stood amongst a group of black and brown protestors as he was asked by the female (black) desk anchor about his safety--his safety! How infuriating!
And still, you do not see us when we are cuffed, choked, collard-boned-broke, and gasping for just air (and fair treatment.) How mentally, physically, and psychologically damaging is that!
