When does it stop? When do white people actually join their suffering fellow citizens?
My heart is a mess of angst and frustration. My last post about police brutality got barely a nod from people in this forum. Is anyone listening? Can we rise to the occasion and SERIOUSLY start working hand-in-hand with the citizens whose ancestors PHYSICALLY BUILT this country without compensation?
The families of Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson were drawn together by tragedies that have become all too familiar in the United States.
By Hayley Miller
10/29/2019
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5db855bae4b036b6a16755f0
NEW YORK ― On a mild fall evening, two strangers bound together by unimaginable tragedy at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve met for the first time in Manhattan.
Ashley Carr and Alissa Charles-Findley never wanted the spotlight. But their families were thrust into it when Texas police officers, in separate incidents roughly a year apart, opened fire on their siblings in their own homes.
In the days and weeks that followed, each woman, like so many other members of Black families who have been victimized by systemic police brutality, would join the frontlines of a national movement they had once supported from a distance.
Hours after their first meeting, Carr and Charles-Findley stood beside each other in Foley Square as keynote speakers at a National Day of Outrage protest against police violence, led by Until Freedom, a social justice organization. It was Carrs first rally, but the words flowed easily.
This is something that could happen to anybody, she told the crowd. When does this stop? When are we able to just live, to be productive citizens like we were told to be?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)police and has nothing to do with white people ....the header was misleading....at least it was to me.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)It's a meta thing
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)If you dont know that it is useless to talk about it. If possible read the threads posted when Ferguson was in the news.
I think there are threads started to give the OP author personal gratification.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)From Daily KOS:
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1895814
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)I look at the faces of African Americans and I see such a deep, deep sadness.