Hi everyone. Lately I’ve been posting about making it to another Monday all the time, sanity and health intact and all…but this week was on another level. The world is melting down around us and I was shocked and appalled at the violence saturating the news, and I’m not talking about what the looters or rioters were doing. I’m a heterosexual white girl from Canada and my privilege was comfortably having my head in the sand about the extent of the long simmering anger and injustice. Of course we see all the news coverage when there’s another police related killing or beating or whatever other way power is being abused, but they start to blur together like all the school shootings. Every such event is horrific and terrifying and disheartening on it’s own, but there are so many. The news moves on and so do we. So I am amazed at the tenacity and courage of every single protester and marcher that’s consistently out there pushing for change, especially in the face of the vicious police response in some cites, and the ever present virus. The idea of how many more Covid cases this will lead to is heartbreaking.
Please everyone do everything in your power to stay safe, stay healthy, stay loving, change hearts, and minds, and policy. Please share any important to you links in the comments, wether charities, opinion pieces, vital stories or videos or whatever.
I love all of you and Black Lives Matter.