By Design

Despite my belief in the power of bearing witness, I have long stopped watching viral video footage of police murdering Black people. I cannot passively watch Black children be murdered. I’m also most likely to mourn this violence privately, because social media feels like a fleeting space for persistent and repetitive grief. In my current role, I have a responsibility to join the chorus of folks who understand racial injustice as a root cause of the harm that children experience globally. That, by design these systems will kill, maim, disappear, silence and harm children the world over. That none of us should be surprised as much as we deserve to be. I am clear Ma’khia, Daunte & Adam deserved to live, to be loved through their difficulties, and to not be fatally reminded that the world sees them as disposable. We’ve had a collective chance with Ma’khia, Daunte, Adam and countless other children to be better and we were not. And we persist in not being better even when our children deserve better. I rage for you Ma’Khia, Daunte & Adam. We owed them so much more.