I beg my non-Asian allies and friends to share this. There has been a great proliferation of violent attacks against Asian Americans, many of them our elders, including some which have ended in murder/death. Help bring awareness to this problem so we can try to prevent any more!
Trayvon’s murder will always enrage me. That was the first one to really hit me in my chest. He wasn’t killed by the state but the state went above and beyond to protect the yt man who murdered him. I’ll never let it go.
Chloe’s live also prompts me to share that it’s absolutely okay to want attention. You don’t have to justify that or downplay it. This isn’t to say that that’s what she did but we can make space for the reality that wanting attention isn’t necessarily a bad thing.