Michelle Obama has once again articulated how I, and I am sure many of us ,have felt. Black people worry about their safety ALL THE TIME, especially in White Space- spaces, White people have been able to own/dominate/create through all the privileges their system has provided them. Spaces, like Ivy League schools, executive board rooms, suburban communities, Congress, Senate...etc. Some Black people have been able to fight and push through to be included in those spaces, but that does not mean we feel safe. We wake up to stories like that of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor that reminds us that we could be jogging around our neighborhood or just sleeping in our homes and our lives can be taken away. We live in the reality that at any point, we may enter a space in which we might anger/upset someone at the mere sight of our skin, so much so, they start shouting insults and profanities at our face or calling the cops with false accusations or throwing gasoline on us and lighting us on fire, or beating us viciously that we find ourselves at the brink of death or worse.....all this because of the color of our skin. We live in fear but it is also that same fear that motivates us to keep on fighting. We don’t want to be afraid. We don’t want our children to live in that fear anymore.
