Let's get brutally honest for a second.

I read multiple articles about what happened to Jacob Blake yesterday morning, and my stomach turned soured and I was angry. I then watched the video and I was appalled.

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And then the thought crept into my mind of "why did he keep walking away from the officers?"

That's the racism, that's the bias, that's the seed of doubt that creeps into the back of the mind of even the most ardent of us fighting for equity.

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That is the moment we have to stop ourselves, to perform that personal check that must happen every single day, every single instance, because we have been taught to question the motives of a person of color, not ourselves, not our police, not someone who looks like me.

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It doesn't matter why he was walking away, Jacob Blake should never have been shot once, much less 7 times, with 8 holes in his body and paralyzed from the waist down.

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Black Lives Matter, and they must be lifted up because racism and discrimination are alive and well in our country. It is up to me, to you, to every one of us to stand up and call it out when we see it.

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It is especially important to own our internal moments of failing. That is how we start to undo all the wrong that has been allowed to exist and flourish. #jacobblake

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