1.7 million students have police in their school but no counselor.
3 million have police but no nurse.
6 million have police but no psychologist.
10 million have police but no social worker.
We need systemic change—now.
As another wave of white folks decide *now* things have gone too far, *now* I need to get involved, I thought I'd share what @4noura and I learned when we studied how attitudes & behaviors of white activists can cause burnout in antiracist activists of color. (1/thread)
There is justice. There is injustice. There is no neutrality. No sideline. No bleachers. No exits.
We are all in the human rights struggle to save humanity from human tyranny. Black people, especially, are struggling for the right to live, for the right to breathe.
NHK conducted an experiment to see how germs spread at a cruise buffet.
They applied fluorescent paint to the hands of 1 person and then had a group of 10 people dine.
In 30 min the paint had transferred to every individual and was on the faces of 3.
IMPORTANT CONTEXT: Gregory McMichael & Travis McMichael have both been charged w/ murder & aggravated assault.
But, Ahmaud Arbery's family believes a third man, William R. Bryan, should also be charged. Bryan tried to “block” Arbery in w/ his own vehicle & filmed the shooting.
Between the new coronavirus and the old virus of racist terror, Black Americans are fighting for their lives. America has never protected our basic human right to exist. That's why we're fighting for #JusticeForAhmaud. That's why we'll never stop fighting for the right to exist.