Thread by @iamn0tthe1

As well as being heartbroken for the family of Jacob Blake, the @ACNMmidwives Caucus of Black Midwives for Reproductive Justice and Birth Equity are once again angered & anguished for the continued police violence against Black people & Black communities

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as we move through another episode of state sanctioned police violence. We lift up meditations and prayers for healing and pour the offerings to our ancestors to aid in his recovery. We beg his physicians to see him as a victim, not a criminal suspect.

Our thoughts are with Sabrina M. Foulks-Thomas & Dr. Karen Robinson, two Black midwives working & serving in Wisconsin, one of the most segregated regions in America & where Jim Crow & Black Codes are still alive & determining the futures & health outcomes of Black Wisconsinites

We express our commitment and concern for the toll that living in an environment so rooted in white supremacy is taking on Black mothers like Tiffany Tate who died in 2019 when she collapsed of a witnessed stroke while working in the cafeteria on the campus of @MedicalCollege

Despite being only 150 yards away from the cities regional stroke center & surrounded by physicians, was diverted away by an ambulance dispatcher and later died when she was only seconds away from lifesaving thrombolytics when she had her attack. projects.jsonline.com/news/2019/1/17…

We still don’t believe had she been one of said white male physicians, instead of a line cook, she would have been turned away.

It is racism not race that is killing Black mamas & babies and we cannot thrive or achieve #ReproductiveJustice as long as a Black mother never knows if her partner will come home or be a victim of police violence because they are viewed as a threat by just existing in their skin

We offer condolences to the families of the two young allies, Anthony Huber & Joseph Rosenbaum who died bringing attention to the continued hatred towards Black communities but must continue to center violence against Black folks & the the police culture people.com/crime/2-men-ki…

of white supremacy that saw A Black man shot 7 times while walking away from police, leaving him seriously injured; possibly permanently paralyzed, but allowed the same police, in the same city allow Kyle Rittenhouse walk calmly down the street carrying & illegal automatic rifle

through a cadre of squad cars unmolested, to flee the scene of his terrorist attack on innocent protesters. He was no threat at all.

We can never be unarmed when our Blackness is the weapon that you fear. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08…

And we’ll continue to proclaim today, tomorrow and always:

BLACK LIVES MATTER