We can breathe again,
brother of George gasps into the microphone
11 months after
9 horrific minutes left
1 body with breath no more
I shudder to think of where we would be today if “not quilty”
bell had rung as usual.
How dangerously close we came to digging another grave,
tombstone reading “Justice”.
Rejoice? No.
Relief? Yes.
Brown and black people
lives
bodies
still pinned to the ground
oppression’s knee on their necks
suffocating via more insidious violence (poverty, discrimination, disease)
white supremacy in uniform
offering us all lies (“it was addiction and poor health that killed him”) to distract
from the crime being committed in front of our eyes, in the middle of the street.
Justice? No
A path toward healing? Maybe
As part of this week's piece, a song from one of my creative inspirations and someone I have been honored to mentor during his training as a physician. You I Am (aka Dr. Umar Malik) composed "Breathless" last summer, and I have wanted to find a way to share this as part of this blog for the last nine months. Now is the time. May it offer meaning and healing where you need them both.
As you say, Rejoice? No. Relief? Yes. I found myself thinking that George Floyd's life was ended while Mr. Chauvin's life was also ended, in a way, as was his family's. While one is portrayed simply as victim and the other as perpetrator, they're really both victims; one is the victim of his killer and the other of the environment and people that allowed and taught him to think, feel, and behave in a way that led to him taking a human life so easily. All of us need to navigate our world as we learn new ways of seeing, listening, relating, and behaving to do better and be better. Blessings...JR.
ReplyDeleteA relief, yes! A spark of Justice, yes! A long way to go, indeed!
ReplyDeleteThe spark of Justice is the Light we seek.
May we escape the gravity of fear and greed.
As Cornel West said, "Justice is what Love looks like in public."
We all seek Love.
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