Most of us have the moral decency to recognize that murder is the worst violation of human rights and should never happen at the hands of someone who is supposed to ensure our safety. What many fail to recognize is that it occurs through a slippery slope of injustices that go without recognition.
Many of you have cried out for justice yet you are the same people who bitch about affirmative action, want mandatory drug testing for welfare and food stamp recipients. You oppose mail in ballots, fail to recognize the health inequity for African Americans and don’t bat an eye at the fact that the United States has some of highest maternal/fetal mortality rates in the world for African American women and their children. Our president pretended to not recognize that due to health inequity African Americans are dying disproportionately from Covid-19. This is not new information and has been on public health radar for decades.
It is through this slow desensitization of a people that allows for someone to be murdered on the streets in broad daylight, in public. It is utter hypocrisy for you to put George Floyd’s picture on your Facebook page.
Which leads me to my next rant. Did anyone ask Mr. Floyd’s mother how she felt about her son’s picture being on every news media web site, random stranger’s Facebook pages and IG stories. Not a picture of his face but a picture of him succumbing. Neither picture in my opinion is acceptable but the latter is definitely insensitive and traumatizing.
Have we become so desensitized that we can’t appreciate the brevity of a situation without seeing it?
Be respectful and take it down. Find another way to advocate. Maybe by doing some introspection on why this is happening and what YOU can do to help.
Some of us have very little experience with secondary trauma and may not recognize it. You have to just take my word and believe that it is real. Flooding your brain with constant negative information and images will take it’s toll. Are you finding yourself increasingly anxious, agitated, angry, impatient? Do you have little faith in others and see the world in a negative view?
Stop watching, listening and experiencing. Practice empathy, true empathy, not just pity. Do things that are truly helpful, and check the hypocrisy in your outrage.
Unapologetically Pretty 
Well said sister
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