Finding Comfort in a New Holiday Tradition -- XOTV Weekly
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Finding Comfort in a New Holiday Tradition
I remember the day that I found out about the murder of George Floyd. I had just turned twenty-two and was on my way to graduating from university. Like every other morning, I started my day by scrolling through the news, and there was a snippet of an article about the death of a Black man in Minneapolis in police custody. This wasn’t surprising to me. This is the reality of being a Black person in the United States. These stories have sadly become commonplace. It wasn’t until later that night that I saw massive protests occurring in Minneapolis and began to pay closer attention. Over the next couple of weeks, those protests would spread to every state and around the world. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, and Elijah McClain tragically joined the list of Black people killed by police. From Instagram, Twitter, and every news outlet, people were talking about Black Lives Matter. The Black Lives Matter Movement isn’t new to me though. I remember in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin, first hearing about the group. Then, they were then a major organizing presence in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 following...read more.
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