I haven’t posted anything to my blog since July of 2019. However, I wanted to use my platform to bring attention to injustices and to talk about how a broken system has continually failed me and my people. With the death of George Floyd and countless other beautiful black men and women, we as a people are outraged, we are sad, we are upset, we are sick. We wonder why these things continue to happen to us. We wonder why the system that is supposed to protect every American somehow fails US. We are upset about being told that our protests and rioting should be done differently.
We cannot be too focused on the fact that Target was gutted or that businesses were destroyed or looted. It’s an unfortunate inconvenience where a broken system affects more than just the oppressed. Those businesses have insurance and everything from the building structure to the contents inside of them can be replaced. A life, however, cannot. We must keep our focus on the lives that have been taken from us unjustly and lead the charge in dismantling a failed system.
Do not be silent. Do not be complacent. Do not think that it can’t happen to you. We need each other so that we can make a better world for our children and our children’s children.
I support the Black Lives Matter movement and I support the efforts being made all across the United States of America. We want justice, we want peace, we want to live.
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