I feel like I should write tonight. I’m trying to get a regular cadence to my posts but tonight my heart is heavy and my thoughts are not clear. Another innocent black life taken needlessly, carelessly, and without accountability. An innocent life was taken but it was the shots through drywall that drew charges...
This week we hit the grim milestone of 200,000 Americans deaths due to the global pandemic – a grave and saddening moment for our country. Yet it is the other pandemic, the pandemic of systemic racism that is at the forefront of my mind tonight. For 400 years, a group of Americans, generation after generation, have been treated as property, 3/5 of a person, segregated, lynched, imprisoned, brutalized... The toll this must take – the generational trauma, the weight of a system designed to keep you down. I cannot imagine the feeling.
For tonight, I will quote author Ijeoma Oluo to try to explain how it might feel, because I will never truly understand:
“Often, being a person of color in white-dominated society is like being in an abusive relationship with the world. Every day is a new little hurt, a new little dehumanization. We walk around flinching, still in pain from the last hurt and dreading the next.”
Today was yet another dehumanization for black Americans.
I am sorry this has happened to you yet again. I stand in support as you grieve. Tomorrow the fight continues.
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