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America, This Is Your Chance

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· June 9, 2020 · 1 minute to read

America, This Is Your Chance:

More than 95 percent of arrests every year are for nonviolent offenses like loitering, fare evasion and theft. Some are arrested for selling loose cigarettes (which resulted in Eric Garner’s being choked to death by the police) or minor forgery (which resulted in George Floyd’s being suffocated to death by the police).

People are right to wonder — is this justice? Can’t we design alternative approaches to poverty, drug abuse, mental illness, trauma and violence that would do less harm than police, prisons, jails and lifelong criminal records?

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Breaking the Chain: Healing Racial Trauma in the Body

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· June 6, 2020 · 1 minute to read

Breaking the Chain: Healing Racial Trauma in the Body:

The second generation had never actually experienced an electric shock, but the trauma of that had been passed down through their father’s DNA expression. The fear of that cherry blossom smell was in their bodies.

That’s what we mean when we talk about inherited trauma. It’s not a change in the actual DNA structure, but a change in how those genes get expressed, letting the progeny know what is and isn’t dangerous. It’s a survival mechanism.

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The American Nightmare

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· June 6, 2020 · 1 minute to read

The American Nightmare:

You are them. They are you. You are all the same person—all the murdered, all the living, all the infected, all the resisting—because racist America treats the whole black community and all of its anti-racist allies as dangerous, just as Hoffman did. What a nightmare. But perhaps the worst of the nightmare is knowing that racist Americans will never end it. Anti-racism is on you, and only you.

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Backend distributed systems developer, living in southern Ontario, Canada. Occasional rock-climber, frequent video-gamer. Jack of no trades, master also of none.

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