Breonna Taylor

Shit is still unbelievable... or not. This happens often. The perception of guilt because of our blackness, the company we keep, the communities we live in. It's justified because the no knock warrant was the law. It's justified because the police officers were fired upon by her licensed to carry boyfriend in the dark in the middle of the night. They were asleep. You know because when you have work in the morning you go home where you are safe and rest for the next day's work. We take it for granted. White people, people that are not from working class communities, communities not of color can take this for granted. This is not an anomaly. It is the law and her life does not matter as much as someone with more prestige, less melanin, more money. I'm hurt that I am not surprised by any of this. Breonna Taylor should not be a hashtag. She was doing absolutely nothing wrong. She was asleep in her own house and the police came in and shot her. Atatiana Jefferson was shot and killed by the police. In her home playing video games with her nephew. AT HOME. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary. Sleep is supposed to be your refuse. But the cops shot them and justice has not been served. Because black skin doesn't matter and being a woman doesn't get respect. Add socioeconomic status to that and you might as well be invisible. Forgotten. Fucked over. Unprotected. 

"Shoot first and ask questions last. That's how most of these so called gangstas pass" but what if the gangstas have the law on their side? Her life doesn't matter to the masses. Just one more death in a sea of disrespectful treatment of Black women by a society that fails to see our equal worth and find justifications for our mistreatment.

I am a Black woman from Philly. 3 times a threat or 3 times more likely to be dismissed, disrespected, forgotten and unprotected. 

Unfair but not likely to change. I'm fearful for my daughters and myself.