I haven’t been able to post a blog since Daunte Wright was killed. That was overwhelming due to the location of the incident, the response by the officers, and the community it impacted. Just after that, Derek Chauvin was convicted. We honored a year since George Floyd was murdered. Then, the city moved the barricades…
Category: Race
Mic Check
Thank you to everybody who has reached out to check in. I’m okay, I am safe, and I am also exhausted, spooked, and expecting more. For those who don’t know, I started my community organizing in Brooklyn Center in 2018. Our organization has moved our physical office to Brooklyn Park but continue to serve and…
Black History Month Ends; Black History Continues
February is set aside as Black History Month in the United States and it can be a great time for us to remember the importance of going back and checking what we learned and expand on that knowledge. Black history is American history, but it’s often left out or reframed when talked about on a…
Martin Luther King Jr. – A Reminder for us White People
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.” Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or…
A Year in Review or About to be Recreated?
I’ve warned you about long posts in the past, but this one is by far the longest. To celebrate my birthday, some friends I met while in Bolivia came to visit. As you can imagine, whenever you have friends from one aspect of life step into another, it becomes surreal, and although we’ve visited each…
We Need to do More
I have multiple drafted blog posts from the past few months that never got published. They felt pointless when everybody was experiencing the same pandemic. And then I remembered we are not all experiencing the same pandemic. Different communities are facing different difficulties, and all of those are valid. In elementary school, I first learned…