[Image description: Description of an Instagram post by artist Macklemore that reads:
"This boy looks about the same age as Sloane. I watched this video right after I sent my kids off to school today. I've been hugging them a little longer than I used to. Tears flood my eyes as I think about what it would feel like to hold my own murdered children, exerting every ounce of desperation into the universe, pleading towards God to put breath back into their little lungs.
I've caught myself not wanting to open Instagram over the weekend, seeped in my own selfish desire to turn off the impossible suffering that is my feed. This father's pain feels too much. I scroll more and see that yesterday was one of the worst days since the bombing of Palestine started with 1,000 deaths on Sunday alone. It's only getting worse. What a privilege it is to look away. To have the choice to tap in or out depending on my mood. Watching this video woke up my own heart this morning. I want to cry. I want to be angry. I want to have deep compassion. I want to feel. The system of oppression desperately wants us to go back to normal life as the killing continues. They want us to shop and think about the holidays. They want us to turn away from our own humanity. They want us to see Palestinian life as separate from our own. I will not."
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