Silence About Racism Against Black People is Genocide

On what was supposed to be one of my most important weekends of which I had been planning for months, was totally turned upside down by the massacre that took place in Charleston, South Carolina.  As I was preparing to head to the airport for an out-of-town trip early Thursday morning, I became debilitated, stuck on my couch listening to various early morning news programs’ recount the story of a mad gunman that appeared to have prayed with and then killed parishioners of a church.  In somewhat of a daze, I was quietly hoping/praying that I wasn’t really hearing what it was I was actually hearing.  As I changed the channel and scrolled through my social media accounts, my heart became increasingly heavy at the magnitude of what was going on.

The two things that immediately caught my attention was the fact that the name of the church was Emmanuel, (which is the name of my home church here in Brooklyn) and the fact that much of my family that migrated from the South to New York in the 1940’s actually came from Charleston.

Still at a true lost of words to convey the anger, disappointment and roller coaster of emotions that I am feeling a week later.  What I am completely clear about more so then I have ever been, is just how deafening  the silence continues to be about racism against black people and all of the inequity that it promotes.  I sometimes wonder, does white america really think that if they pretend like racism doesn’t exist, we will just be quiet, go away and pretend with them.  Intellectually I get it, I mean I am a part of a Racial Equity and Cultural Competence Task Force at work and I actually train on this stuff. But if I can be completely honest;   Silence About Racism Against Black People is Genocide!

Once again, Kuu Photography has been able to capture, the sentiments, thoughts, and tears of people feelings in the aftermath of this tragedy through its Social Series video campaign, entitled Silence is.

Lets make this viral and break the internet so that we can finally start a real conversation about racism and how this silence is killing us.

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