- Protest
- Post my video with Trigger warnings only
- Keep your mental health up
- Make sure the media depicts me as an educated, carefree black girl
- Fight for police reform
- Tell congress to put money into public health research on police brutality
- Support my family
- Make sure all GoFundMe funds go into paying off my student debt
- Start a scholarship fund for black girls wanting to go into STEM living in areas of low SES
- Give my twitter password to my best friend.
I shouldn't have to sit here and write a list of things my family and friends should do if my blood somehow end up on the hands of police officers that see my skin as a threat. Everyday I fear for my life. Five miles per hour over the speed limit could cause one bad encounter with the wrong one and cost me my life. What if my name is the next hashtag? What if my face is on the next poster at a Black Lives Matter protest. All of these things run through my mind and my mental health is suffering because of it. "Keep your mental health up, my brothas and sistas" as I type on my social media pages, making sure that everyone is okay, when in actuality i'm not okay, because another video, another hashtag, another death pops up every month or so. If you're reading this... this post somehow popped up on your Facebook feed or Twitter TL. I want you to know that we must make a change. Your silence speaks volume, and your voice will forever be heard if you use it, for good. I'm tired of using videos, statistics and analogies to convince people that our lives matter. Tiredness will be the death of me until I don't have to sit here and write a list of things my family and friends should do if my blood somehow ends up on the hands of police officers that see my skin as a threat.
