When I listened to Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend’s call to the police in 2020 I wasn’t very active in politics until then I kinda just accepted things we like this but when I heard that man ,Kenneth walker, crying on 911 saying they shot his girlfriend she’s not breathing help I realized something had to be done
Stupid, but that scene in Matilda where Miss Honey says “you were born into a family that doesn’t always appreciate you.” My parents were going through an incredibly messy divorce. I was the middle child. My mother was an alcoholic and my father was abusive. I was stuck. I’m in my last year of college to be a teacher.
After that though, my mom was a single mom of three kids (she’s now sober as well), and I saw with my own two eyes just how much she/we struggled. I didn’t have the best home life, but I had a great education (part of my reasoning for pursuing education) and I knew that one way or another we were all gonna make it out. That radicalized me. People need people.