Justice for Breonna doesn’t end with the officers. That’s just part of it.
As we continue to say her name, we are calling out institutional and structural racism, inequity, poverty, mass criminalization, and abandonment of our communities.
Her name represents so much more.
@angg_bond I feel like old men think it’s normal to say that shit and it’s not. Like do not ever sexualize my child in front of me it will not end well for you.
Not long ago, “Black Lives Matter” was *also* a rallying cry for justice that politicians worried polled too poorly, was too “divisive” & required “too much explanation.”
Now Mitt Romney is saying it.
Progress is a process. It’s normal to work through discomfort along the way.
If you’re out here defending your racist mothers, brothers, fathers, boyfriends, aunts, uncles or cousins because it’s “the way they were raised” well, then fuck you too.
George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.