3.09 #podcastblackout

Erik and I stand with the protesters and activists who are calling for broad sweeping changes in our communities to end state sanctioned harassment and murder of black people. This episode  is exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds long. This is the amount of time George Floyd was slowly choked to death while a crowd of onlookers pleaded for his murderer to cease this brutal behavior. We ask you to take the rest of this episode, which will be silence, to honor George Floyd’s memory, as well as the hundreds, if not thousands, of brutalized and murdered black people in our communities over the past 413 years. We hope you will feel the sense of heartache and shame that we do. Even more, we hope that feeling will spur you to action and allyship with our black community.We will include links in the show notes with resources and further reading, as well as ways to get involved and make a difference.Peace at any price is actually tyranny of the powerless. While peace is the goal, the path is justice. The brutalization of black people by the state is neither peace nor justice. Not standing against it is standing for it. If we want to end the violence, we must end it through justice and action.In solidarity, Aicila & ErikBiCurean PodcastDonate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For Youhttps://bit.ly/3dAVK4zA 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated Americahttps://n.pr/3dATTNkHow Hoover worked to deceive the white community and undermine black organizershttps://bit.ly/3eShQjn ★ Support this podcast ★ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.