”Between Amy Cooper’s Oscar worthy Central Park performance, Ahmaud Arbery shooting death in Georgia, Breonna Taylor’s assassination inside her Louisville home, and the Minneapolis murder of George Floyd, black people in America are running on fumes.
We’re tired, angry, confused and yet, this space is familiar to us. This place of torment and trauma has become a home of sorts. The cycle begins in the far corners of Twitter with rumblings of a killing. Then a recording of the victim’s last moments pop up and shortly after, we finally learn the person’s name.”
This article is written by Shenequa Golding and is spot on as she digs deep into the mental and emotional trauma that people of color (have been) and are experiencing at am alarming rate or today. Please continue reading Ms Goulding’s article in the link provided:
https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585
Most of the time we try to separate the real from the real-real. Real being reality of things experienced inside our homes and communities; and real-real is the facade we put on every Monday morning for work or before every Teams/Zoom/Skype call. Masking the pain, hurt, sickness, humiliation, and feeling of despair that has become commonplace and a sense of normalcy.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE A NEW NORMAL!