I'm overcome with emotions right now, going downtown to clean up was not what I expected. I expected to feel like I was being caring and helpful as lately I've been feeling powerless, helpless and emotional.
Being faced with the option to clean up and erase "Black Lives Matter" on the side of a building upset me and I couldn't do it, so I walked away.
There were many white people downtown cleaning up, erasing the expressions from last night and my heart told me to leave. This isn't my job to do.
I've cried a lot this weekend and I started crying downtown too. A lot of white people thinking they're doing good by painting "Peace" while erasing "BLM" or "R.I.P. George Floyd".
I'm processing, realizing that my job this time isn't to run out and help clean up. I just hope the people who are down there right now read and understand what they're erasing. Those are expressions of people who needed to speak.
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