Dianne Liuzzi Hagan
ASIN: B0771VD2R8
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 370
Walking in the rain, blasting the car stereo, changing lanes, or having a broken taillight or a toy gun can get you killed in America if you are a person of color. Just ask the mothers of the Black Lives Matter movement. These women, and others like them, should never have had to enter a club of mothers mourning the loss of their children due to unjust, excessive use of force and racial bias, and should not be shouldering the burden of racism in America. Centuries of systemic racism and white privilege, coupled with the new Jim Crow, reawakened by the election of Barack Obama, and codified into law by Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions, sealed our collective regression into an openly segregated country. We cannot forget for one day how each of those lives lost has left a hole in the hearts of the families and the communities affected, and how mainstream acceptance of white supremacist ...