Month: June 2020
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Can’t
From a young age, I have always been one to believe that I can accomplish anything I put my mind to. In the subjects I am passionate about, I have always sought to shoot for the moon. Never have I been the one to tell myself that I cannot accomplish one of my goals lofty…
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Divided or Together?
I thought I was globally aware. I believed that I was educated in the matter of racism, and I thought I knew the worse of racial division in our world. Until George Floyd. Then it seemed like an avalanche of news came towards me, uncovering countless issues in regards to race and cultural divide. As…
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This is Our World
Oscar Grant. Stephon Clark. Sean Bell. Freddie Gray. Akai Gurley. Amadou Diallo. Malice Wayne Green. Eric Garner. Walter L. Scott. Timothy Stansbury. Hear their names. At least this once. Above are ten, just ten names of African-American men who have been murdered unjustly at the hands of authority in the past thirty years. However, for…