If I Can Breathe

I have to use my voice for those who can’t.

I did not choose to be a white man, but I do choose to understand what that means. To feel the discomfort and risk. To step into the spaces that I have to step into in order to fight for our Black Brothers and Sisters.

I can choose to use my voice to speak and protest and yell and as Janelle Monet has urged to START the speaking and protesting and yelling about the murder and injustice that continues to happen to our Black Brothers and Sisters.

“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city of Washington, wrote to Thomas Jefferson: I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments. . . . I apprehend you will embrace every opportunity to eradicate that train of absurd and…