Eight minutes, forty-six seconds
Eight minutes, forty-six seconds.
\nThat is how long a police officer kept his knee on George Floyd\u2019s neck. A murder committed on an unarmed black man, in broad daylight, by law enforcement.
\nToday, we are silent for 8 minutes, 46 seconds - to honor and remember George Floyd, and the many others who have died, as the United States confronts the injustices of police brutality, systematic racism, and white supremacy.
\nThe United States wrote in its founding document that \u201call men are created equal\u201d, and it has not lived up to that promise. America can no longer hide from its past. But the promise is not in vain, because the promise does not come from the past.
\nThe promise of America comes from the striving of its people. It has always been the people. Our history is the history of people who wouldn\u2019t accept things as they were. We are a nation unwilling to let things be. We are a nation of protesters. We are a nation who does not give up on our people.
\nThere is a saying on the Great Seal, a saying even older than the Declaration.
\nE pluribus unum. \u201cOut of many, one.\u201d
\nThe forgotten promise of so many, for so long, must become the promise of one. \nOne nation, one people.
\nLet us all do the work.
\nLinks:
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- Color of Change \n
Sign this petition calling for the end of police violence against Black people.\nhttps://act.colorofchange.org/signup/state-emergency-black-people-are-dying
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- Nationwide Bail Fund \n
Help support bail for protestors in your community. \nhttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd
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- Campaign Zero \n
A look at data and research-informed policy solutions communities can put in place to end police violence.\nhttps://www.joincampaignzero.org/#campaign
\nMedia Resources:
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- Movies \n
13th (NETFLIX)
\nAmerican Son (NETFLIX)
\nDear White People (NETFLIX)
\nIf Beale Street Could Talk (HULU)
\nKing in the Wilderness (HBO)
\nSee You Yesterday (NETFLIX)
\nThe Hate U Give (CINEMAX)
\nWhen They See Us (NETFLIX)
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- Podcasts \n
1619 (NEW YORK TIMES)
\nAbout Race
\nCode Switch (NPR)
\nIntersectionality Matters!
\nPod Save The People
\nPod for the Cause
\nSeeing White
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- Books \n
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
\nWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
\nA People\u2019s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
\nStamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
\nEvicted by Matthew Desmond
\nNobody by Marc Lamont Hill
\nBlackballed by Darryl Pinckney
\nThe Color of Law by Richard Rothstein