i am floating on the depth of Black love and joy I’ve been experiencing honoring Black history—
while simultaneously being gutted by the further traumatization of ceaseless acts anti-Black viligiant and state-sanctioned violence.
while simultaneously being gutted by the further traumatization of ceaseless acts anti-Black viligiant and state-sanctioned violence.
the duality of these experiences are just part of the reality of being Black in America.
one minute you’re walking in the power, love, and joy of being Black, and the next your being sucker punched by the news of another Black life stolen. #AmirLocke
one minute you’re walking in the power, love, and joy of being Black, and the next your being sucker punched by the news of another Black life stolen. #AmirLocke
you are whiplashed back into consciousness of all the violent colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist systems and structures to which you are largely powerless.
our love and joy remains (it cannot be contingent upon anything but our humanity), and the Black resilience required to endure endless white supremacist violence is exhausting.
we don’t want to keep having to be resilient. we want shit to change.
#JusticeForAmirLocke
we don’t want to keep having to be resilient. we want shit to change.
#JusticeForAmirLocke
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