forgotten_aria

I am angry, sad, nauseous about what is happening, what continues to happen. I run in my neighborhood where many neighbors posted BLM signs, and then a few weeks later, "We support our police," signs started to pop up. I hate that we live in a country where Black people asking to stop being killed by police is viewed as "anti-police." I am tempted to make signs to place next to theirs so that their signs say "we support our police killing Black people," but that wouldn't achieve anything.

This <href=https://www.instagram.com/p/ceaqfojh82p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">art is a distillation of my current anger.

I am angry at the people who are willfully misunderstanding defund the police. AOC I think described it well.


"What does an America with defunded police look like to you?" Ocasio-Cortez responded, "It looks like a suburb."

"Affluent white communities already live in a world where the choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to 'protect their future,' like community service or rehab or restorative measures. Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?

"Why doesn't the criminal system care about Black teens' futures the way they care for White teens' futures?" AOC continued. "Why doesn't the news use Black people's graduation or family photos in stories the way they do when they cover White people (eg Brock Turner) who commit harmful crimes?"

This is me not being silent, but I am still in despair.