Sharing my dear friend Kazu Hagas words. Dr. King once said that a riot is the voice of the unheard. And that is exactly what the uprising in Ferguson is. It is the voices of people who have felt unheard for generations, who have had their pain invalidated for hundreds of years. It is the pain of a people who have faced 500 years of slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, red-lining and police violence. You really think that amount of pain is going to come out calm? There is a difference between being in pain and honoring pain. Being in pain sucks, it hurts, and it doesn’t always help. It’s when our pain is acknowledged and honored that it can begin to heal, so we can move forward to a more constructive place. The protesters in Ferguson are showing their pain and anger right now, and I can’t help but feel that it is not being heard by America. I feel strongly that we, as a nation, need to see, hear, and honor what is being poured out into the streets without judgment. This anger is what is real. This anger, this indignation, is real, it is righteous, it is what should be expected after 500 years of injustice.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:13:17 +0000
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