Facebook Publication Date: 7/12/2022 0:07
Lace on The Race
You might wonder why what I’m sharing with you right now falls under the heading of politics.
But politics is nothing more or less then how we live with each other. It includes laws, but it also includes a national narrative, a national shared character. The fact that a sitting president egged the rioters on matters. The fact that it’s taken a year and a half for this hearing to even happen matters. Because it’s not just about the story We tell, but what is allowed to be folded into that story. It also involves how distant we are from it. And that is no small element of the reasons why this took as long as it did.
There are also some of you who might also be wondering why I am featuring an essay by someone on a police force, considering how I feel about police overreach.
This is important though.
As you read his words, think hard about the fact but he was an immigrant, and as an afro-latino was charged with protecting the very walls of a legislature charged with serving the people of this country.
They were outnumbered and out and out ambushed.
I’m going to allow him to tell you the story.
But I want to make sure that you know some things. He is no longer on the force. Despite receiving medals and commendations for his service. He’s 43 years old and his career is over. It pierced me to hear that what he experienced in Iraq as a soldier was eclipsed by what happened in the capital on that fateful day.
For those of you who feel that white supremacy is just an unfortunate inconvenience to black and brown people; at best minor and at worst non-existent, to those of you who would minimize what happened on January 6th and what it did to infect the character of our country, read and confront.
Reflect and comment.
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