Last week, while observing the news unfolding in the #BaltimoreUprising, I was at once heartbroken with my kin in the US facing, once again, the multiple traumas of systemic violence against black bodies in America, and also frustrated by the way in which people around me here in Dominica were mostly apathetic or dismissive of the protests and uprising that is certainly a reaction to the killing of black women and men in the US by police, particularly escalating since the death of Trayvon Martin. These were some of my thoughts, at least the ones I could articulate:
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