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There’s maybe too much to be said about what is happening right now and communicating my thoughts has seemed impossible. At the risk of echoing so many others, but still so necessary to express, Black people deserve better. Black men deserve better. Black women deserve better. Black trans and genderqueer people deserve better. And Black children deserve better. Every day, I’m angry, sad, full of grief, and extremely anxious, but simultaneously I am empowered, excited, and foc
Every Black and Brown death at the hands of the punish-first-de-escalate-later system of policing in the United States deserves to be mourned individually, but as the list of names and faces grows and the pattern of destruction of Black life becomes more self-evident, so do the ominous consistencies. When George Floyd was murdered on March 25 in Minneapolis, the gruesome video echoed the murder of Eric Garner, 6 years prior, as he desperately choked out the same words: “I can
Kicking it with my black friends, class at my HBCU. Meeting with the black student union in high school. I'm always immersed and in contact. All these people who look like you. All who know what it's like to live like you in this skin. Some not entirely. All say they got your back because they believe “black lives matter”. Some, not entirely. This is a hard lesson one that i've had to learn the hard way. Like spotting a social justice warrior from an activist: Judah’s kiss be