I’m a writer, artist and designer who thinks way too much, and tries to see the beauty in the world.

Category: injustice

Chokehold

Chokehold “I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner’s last words, gasped as Officer Pantaleo’s hands squeezed his windpipe shut. “I can’t breathe,” Garner pleaded as he died, begging— every cell in his body screaming for oxygen. “No reasonable cause,” said the D.A., when the grand jury choked…
Denial

I saw a picture of Michael Brown’s mother as she heard the verdict. I felt her mother’s pain radiate into my heart, into my safe flat-screened life a roaring scream— and with the pain, my own weak shame: in my white-bubble youth I was taught justice would be served— to everyone, it says so right…

Chokehold