This is a must-read. Our athletes deserve full respect on and off the field, and abusers need to be held accountable.
Thank you @mollyhc for amplifying, and sending our love and support to @hiyakaiya and teammates.
western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.
That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.
And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.