Something that bummed me out this morning: I see #AmyCooper's name across my timeline and trending (for good reason) but had to search and click into several articles before seeing #GeorgeFloyd's name and not just "a black man killed by police".
Even with his name, there are so many names that even when we #SayHisName it feels drowned out. I can't even begin to understand how that fatigue/trauma feels to a black person. I have a lot more in common with Amy Cooper yet feel discouraged as to what I can do in all of this.
I know many of my (white) peers outside Twitter won't know this happened or worse have the apathy and (un)conscious bias that create Amy Cooper's in the first place. I want to know #GeorgeFloyd's name but moreso I want to know how to change myself and my fellow Amy's and Karen's
So we can know George's and Ahmaud's and Tamir's and Sandra's names for their achievements or that they could live a life of peaceful anonymity all together. They shouldn't have to be exceptional to be considered worthy of humanity.
We'll read articles (lord knows 🍠 will weigh in) on what Amy Cooper lost for showing her character. But what about what George lost, his family. Even in living, the sanity and joy every black person loses simply existing in a world with it's finger permanently on the trigger.
I have so much work to do in a society where this continues to happen day after day and the one's making calls look like me. It doesn't matter if I think I'm not like her. I am not doing enough. I participate in the system. I have racist biases. Some soul searching to be had... 
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