June 1st 2020: Y’all I hope that #georgefloyd is the last black body that we must protest for! We aren’t asking for a lot. It’s actually really simple. We just want to live. We don’t want special treatment. We just want to not be murdered on site. We want the same gentle hands used when arresting white people be used for us too! We are just asking for equal treatment. Today I was driving to work around 5:30am and a police car was behind me and I started crying 😢 so hard, I had such a hard time reminding my mind that I needed to keep breathing. I parked in my work parking lot for almost 30 minutes trying to get myself together, because I know I couldn’t walk into my job crying 😢. Mission accomplished I stopped crying 😢 😭. For my job I travel to different clinics and I went to my second clinic around 9:30am and I overheard a manager and a social worker talking about this weekend and it broke my heart 💔💔as they only talked about how Scottsdale had been attacked and not once mentioned the black bodies that had died for us to get here. I left that clinic and drove to my last clinic. And when leaving home from that third clinic I saw 5 white people and 1 black man on the side of the street with signs that read “#blacklivesmatter” “#nojustnopeace” “we stand with black lives“ I pulled over and cried some more. What I’ve decided to do is allow myself to feel all of my emotions. Today I felt.Anger.sadness.hope.fear.hopelessness and today ended with gratitude for the friends who I have. I see your messages, and I see you calling. I haven’t listened to the voicemails but I am slowly starting too. I am grateful that you check on me. I am grateful that you are sharing our stories, donating to bond funds( this one is huge) please donate to the frontline activists. I see you telling me that my black life matters. I might not respond because as you are well aware of, I am tired 😓 but I am grateful for your messages, posts, texts and calls! You know who you are and you know where we stand! Thank you. Today was rough. But I am grateful, even in my pain and hurt 😔. #blacklivesmatter #enoughisenough
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