2020: A Recap and it's only June

It has been a rough year. Wildfires destroying Australia and possibly leading to the extinction of kola bears. A global pandemic that has those of us lucky enough to sheltering in place. People risking their health to vote because mail-in ballots have become some political football kicked around. And still police violence against people of color continues. There is a long history of police violence against black people in the US. It predates Rodney King's vicious beating, but that was my first time to see footage of cops mercilessly beating a person up. It was my first time watching a city burn somewhat metaphorically because of this kind of police violence. Well, cell phones have made it easier to record events in the moment by regular people, and we have learned about how common this violence actually is. In the past it was very easy for people to pretend it wasn't happening. It was happening. It is happening. If you are like me, you can't really understand it. If you are like me, you can't believe in the middle of a global pandemic, there are people killing other people for such confusing reasons. If you are like me, it scares you to see police killing people, unarmed people, people who are no threat. If you are like me, you can't understand because these actions are horrible. And people who are protesting are doing so at the risk of their health and their lives and they are doing it because they have been denied so much and had so much taken from them.