My God...the fact that Keedron Bryant, a 12 yo Black boy so searingly sings about the trauma inflicted upon Black America & just wanting to live is haunting. Our children don't deserve this pain and this fear. #BlackLivesMatter
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Also if you are able to, attend protests. Lend your voices, lend your bodies. Many major cities are holding demonstrations this weekend.
My fellow white people - Watch. Listen. Learn.
Have the hard conversations with your family and friends. If you are uncomfortable with the protests, educate yourself on the history of civil rights.
Stonewall.
Suffragettes.
Labor Unions and Workers Rights.
The 504 Sit In.
Ferguson Protests happened in 2014.
Just dropping this - a handful of y’all know some of what’s happened, but tldr, this last month of my life has been absolute hell and things just keep getting worse. I try to check my DMs once a day if you need me for something. I’m just trying to keep my head above water rn.
It is a horrifying absence of political imagination to prefer letting millions die to, say, trying an appropriately sized basic income and mobilizing the economy to surge health resources for 3-6 damn months.
Our choices are not mass economic deprivation or mass death.