what my mind is chewing on at the moment... "Why are black girls not "our daughters" the same way that Trayvon Martin is "our son?" Why were there no "I am Rekia Boyd" placards held in honor of the unarmed 22-year-old black woman killed by an off-duty Chicago police officer less than one month after Trayvon was murdered? When will President Obama speak out on behalf of 26-year-old Tarika Wilson, who was shot and killed (and her 1-year-old son shot and injured) by a Lima police officer in 2008, or 17-year-old Kiyanna Salter, who was fatally shot on a Chicago Transit Authority bus the same year? When will there be another Million Woman March for all of the black girls and women continually murdered, assaulted, raped, demeaned, invisibilized, and shamed in our own backyard? Why were there no mass marches for Marissa Alexander, the 31-year-old black mother of three sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing a bullet at a wall to scare off her husband who was threatening her?" ~ j.n. salters
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:34:03 +0000
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