Anna Konkle Instagram – I commit to being an active anti-racist. What will it take for a true and thorough national reckoning? Swirling in my mind from morning reading (links in comments)… “‘Could he please, please get justice for my brother, I need it. I do not want to see him on a shirt just like the other guys. Nobody deserved that. Black folk don’t deserve that. We’re all dying,’ he said. ‘Black lives matter.’” “The argument that [granting reparations to black Americans] is politically controversial … So was paying reparations for the Holocaust.” “Ross did not live under the blind decree of justice, but under the heel of a regime that elevated armed robbery to a governing principle. He thought about fighting. ‘Just be quiet,’ his father told him. ‘Because they’ll come and kill us all.’” “‘A child has no control over where they’re born,’ he says. ‘Under no circumstances should the ZIP code in which they’re raised dictate that they have less funding in their schools.’” “American police officers fatally shoot about three people per day, which comes close to the yearly totals of other wealthy nations.” “There’s a sense in which right now we must refuse to be comforted too quickly. Only if these screams and tears and protests shake the very conscience of this nation –and until there is real political and judicial repentance – can we hope for a better society on the other side of this.” “He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn’t designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can’t get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.” Love you all.