I don’t know how to put into words what I’m feeling as I see everything happening around the city and around the country. But I’ll try as being silent is far worse.

It is infuriating that it is 2020 and people are still being targeted and murdered for the crime of being black.

That we live in a country where the government has sat by complacent as it continues to happen.

A country where we pour money into our police and military and deny our communities of color the basic tools they require to thrive.

A country where we are more outraged by a black man kneeling in peaceful protest than a white man decked out in full military regalia screeching about his right to not wear a mask for the safety of others.

We live in a country that protects its second amendment right to bear arms better than its children dying at the hands of “misunderstood” shooters.

I understand that it is hard to watch destruction at the hands of rioters, but there comes a time where enough is enough. Where injustices need to be brought to attention through force and the collective cries of outrage from people who have decided no more.

There will be no more dead sons or dead daughters, at the hands of those who are meant to “serve and protect.”

SERVE.

AND.

PROTECT.

Not abuse their power and authority.

There will be no more men and women harassed and followed and threatened because their skin is black.

I do not condone mindless destruction and unnecessary looting. It makes me sad that we’ve reached this point.

But I stand in solidarity with my black brothers and sisters and I believe that at a certain point things need to be destroyed in order to be rebuilt.