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Thank you Alice for this space, i believe it is crucial to talk about these issues, no matter what race because they affect us all. It is sad to think and see how history is repeating itself, but sadly i am not surprised. As angered and sadnened as I am by this it was not a surprise because the execution of black men and women and people of color has been going on forever in America in countless states where poor and Black and Brown people live. Last summer I worked as an intern at Community Change Inc., in Boston, a non-profit organization devoted to anti-racist work, with a focus on examining white-privelge ( website here:http://www.communitychangeinc.org) . While there the Trayvon Martin murder occurred and I wrote this blog:

http://theunspeakable-truth.tumblr.com/post/55881714944/response-to-how-to-stay-alive-while-being-black-and

I wrote it in a response to an article that was giving advice to young Black males on how to avoid racial profiling, which I thought was a sort of victim blaming. Why is it the responsibility of Black men to adjust their ways to stay safe when they were never doing anything wrong in the first place. I say in this blog that it is the cops, and systems of oppression that need to change and be fixed, not those being oppressed.