Children
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Systemic racism robs children of their innocence
In North Carolina, officers arrested a six-year-old Black boy for picking a tulip near his bus stop. The aftermath of this flower-picking incident shows racism can blossom at any time. Inequality doesn’t wait until a Black person reaches a particular age or milestone. Rather, systemic racism starts impacting children at a young age and never stops. It seems Black innocence is like petals, lost to the wind.
Currently, America doesn’t have a federal law that protects children as young as six from arrest. Each state decides at what age a person can stand trial. …
Rep. Ayanna Pressley may have tweeted it in the now-classic “How it started/How it’s going” meme style, but it’s a serious win: Massachusetts has added asthma to the coronavirus vaccine eligibility list. Just last week, Pressley was among those urging Massachusetts’ governor to do so, noting, “This is both a racial and environmental justice issue.”
This is major, in part because, as Dana Smith writes for Elemental, deprioritizing people with asthma for the Covid-19 vaccine is a racial justice issue. …
Momentum
A blog from Medium about the fight against anti-Black racism.
