This is how we care for each other.
Dear John,
Daunte Wright should be alive today. His loved ones should never have been robbed of their son, grandson, brother, and father. He should never have been pulled over in the first place.
We are all so angry and sad, and exhausted by being angry and sad. Our collective grief is palpable. We are heartbroken and horrified that Daunte Wright was killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer only miles away from the trial of Derek Chauvin. Read our full statement on Daunte Wright’s murder here.
We heal together in public. Peaceful protesters and their neighbors should never have been met with a thin blue line flag, or tear gas, or rubber bullets. Our grief and rage should never be criminalized by curfews. Our community is owed so much healing and justice, it feels hard to comprehend.
Right now, we need to care for each other. Daunte’s family needs to know that he will not be forgotten, and that we will hold and support them however they need us to. Our Black community members need to know that we will do whatever it takes to protect Black lives and dismantle the systems that killed Daunte Wright, George Floyd, Philando Castile, and Jamar Clark.
This is how we care for each other:
Ask yourself what kind of world you want to live in. Ask yourself that question relentlessly, and interrogate the ways in which your privileges come at the cost of Black, brown, and Indigenous lives. Determine what you are willing to risk to protect life.
Have hard conversations. Do something that scares you. I know that I can do more, and I know that I’ll make mistakes along the way; we all will. We’re messy, imperfect, beautiful people. Our humanity carries us through rage and grief, and care and action, to change. We’ll get through this – together.
In solidarity,
Jessie
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