Thread by @wirelesshogan

Every year on 9/11 our nation pauses to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific terror attacks that took place 19 years ago today. Many of us can think back to that morning of #September11, 2001 & remember exactly where we were when the attacks occurred.
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Over the past 19 years our nation has collectively experienced and expressed a gamut of emotions including: grief, honor, fear, outrage, borderline panic, remembrance, #NeverForget and #DemandJustice.
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As a citizen of the United States of America and the son of a military veteran, I honor and remember those who lost their lives due to terror 19 years ago today.
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As a citizen of the Navajo Nation & the grandson of boarding school survivors I want to use this day as a teaching moment ,especially for white Americans & those who struggle to understand the ongoing protests re: racial injustice that are taking place throughout our nation.
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The emotions our nation is collectively feeling today (grief, honor, fear, outrage, borderline panic, remembrance, #NeverForget and #DemandJustice) are the same emotions that many #Natives, African Americans and other POC feel every time there is systemic violence...
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enacted against our communities, such as the murders of #AhmaudArbery and #GeorgeFloyd, the shooting of #JacobBlake or the ongoing crisis throughout Indian Country known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (#MMIWG).
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When writing about the injustice of residential schools in Canada and the resulting Truth And Reconciliation Commission, George Erasmus, (Dene Nation, co-chair of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples) used the following quote:
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“Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community. Where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.”
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As a candidate for POTUS, someone who is a dual citizen of the US & the Navajo Nation, the son of a military veteran & the grandson of boarding school survivors, I invite our nation to create a common memory, not just regarding 9/11 but over our entire history.
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Walk in Beauty my relatives, and may we learn how to walk in beauty together.

Mark Charles /
#MarkCharles2020 #AllThePeople

My VP Candidate @AdrianDWallace and I spoke together on a live stream regarding #911Day. You can watch here:
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