Jacob Blakeβs sister: βIβm not sad. Iβm not sorry. Iβm angry. And Iβm tired. I havenβt cried one time. I stopped crying years ago. I am numb. I have been watching police murder people that look like me for years.β
Required watching.
[I am my brotherβs keeper, and when you say the name Jacob Blake, make sure you sayΒ βfather,β make sure you sayΒ βcousin,β make sure you sayΒ βson,β make sure you sayΒ βuncle,β but most importantly, make sure you sayΒ βhuman.β Human life. Let it marinateβin your mouth, in your mind. A human life, just like every single one of yβallβ¦ Weβre human. His life matters. So many people have reached out to me telling me theyβre sorry that this happened to my family. Well donβt be sorry, because this has been happening to my family for a long time. Longer than I can account for. It happened to Emmett Till. Emmett Till is my family. Philando. Mike Brown. Sandra. This has been happening to my family. And Iβve shed tears for every single one that itβs happened to. This is nothing new.Β Iβm not sad. Iβm not sorry. Iβm angry. And Iβm tired. I havenβt cried one time. I stopped crying years ago. I am numb. I have been watching police murder people that look like me for years. Iβm also a Black history minor. So, not only have I been watching it in the thirty years Iβve been on this planet, but Iβve been watching it for years before we were even alive. Iβm not sad. I donβt want your pity. I want change.]
