Whoever the next Democratic president is, they better not start talking about forgiveness and pardons to unify the country. This country will unify behind prosecutions and prison sentences. We're still fighting because the Confederacy was never properly punished. End the cycle.
Kahlil Simmons, a son, a brother, and a vibrant seventeen-year-old student who was on track to graduate early, was shot and killed by two racist white males April 13th in Aiken County, South Carolina.
Jared Grant Marsh II, 18, Tyler Hans Lariscey, 17, and an unnamed juvenile, 16, were charged with murder connected to Simmons’ death.
Additionally, a pair of forty-year-olds, Bryan Alexander Jr. and Tarah Alexander, were arrested on charges of accessory after the fact to murder for helping the killers dispose of the guns and clothing used during the crime.
Kahlil’s grieving family came together to demand the truth. We will continue to support the Simmons family until they receive justice, transparency, and answers.
Black people don’t hang themselves from trees on church grounds after mysteriously vanishing from their home in a state that has a deeply documented history with the Ku Klux Klan. Juliana Nzita was lynched.
She was Lynched. Her name is Juliana Nzita, she went missing and found Lynched at a White church. Sixteen years old, she had a future ahead of her, she was kind and honest, and White people decided that because of her skin color, she didn't deserve life. Stop White supremacists!
DL Hughely is right… the United States has enough money to pay reparations to Black Americans, it just refuses to.
So on this Memorial Day, as we remember our fallen soldiers who sacrificed to make this country “land of the free and the home of the brave”, also remember that for the United States to be truly free and no longer bound to its horrific past, it must be brave enough to formally acknowledge what was done to Black Americans, apologize, and pay them what is owed.