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And then I mourned the conditions of my own gratitude, my own surprise and relief, and above all the understanding that humanizing a man like him, a Black man who has been brutally killed before the eyes of the world, is even necessary to secure a measure of justice.Permalink On twitter.com
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That foreshadowed how I feel now, with the verdict in: gratitude for the public, official, and collective acknowledgment of the truth of Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd, but…Permalink On twitter.com
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a flinching and a mourning that my gratitude is necessary, that George Floyd's humanity was not assumed by all, that this was such as struggle,Permalink On twitter.com
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and that we still live under a system where the many bystanders who knew he deserved to live had to fear for their lives and reach for their cameras rather than step in and pull Chauvin's killing knee off Floyd's dying neck,Permalink On twitter.com
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a system under which they had to work so hard and wait so long for a justice that feels like a corner turned, but so many further steps to go.On twitter.com