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“ Dear White People , I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us. Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.”I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us. Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.
“Let’s be clear — mental health crises are medical emergencies, not crimes,” the statement read, in part. “America has yet again criminalized our community and subverted accountability.” I didn’t see videos of Trayvon Martin or Breonna Taylor, but their murders and the trauma from their murders lives in my bones. I felt it then and I feel it now. And it is compounded with every new video I see.The world saw George Floyd murdered. His murderer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I cried. And couldn’t stop crying. I saw five Black Memphis police officers beating a Black man to death on camera. White supremacy is not skin color. It's a state of mind.
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