There are no words to express how painful it is to watch the cruel world dim the bright light in your child’s eyes.
No words to explain the helplessness that fills a mother’s heart when she sees her child, see her fear. We stopped talking for a bit and Lennon leaned his head on my shoulder.
And yet it’s a statement that has become heavy and bogged down with political implications. A statement that has become so complex and loaded, that many people who aren’t Black can’t bring themselves to say it. As if saying it betrays their own culture or background in some way. As if saying it is pledging some kind of allegiance to a group of people who they are not connected to. As if we are not all human. As if this is not about humanity.
So only one needs to actually say, out loud, that their life matters. Only one life is actually in danger.When Danny and I created our living trust a few years back, we had to think long and hard about things we had never wanted to think about. We filled out lots of depressing questionnaires and talked through all kinds of terrible scenarios in which one or both of us died young.
Uncle EJ is how I know, without a doubt, that there are good police officers out there. He is how I know that there are good men and women who truly do serve and protect. Men and women who saw police officer as peacekeeper when they read the job description and signed up to make the world a better place.
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