you know I just had an opportunity to
speak with the Floyd family a group of
them most of them they're close
decent honorable family loving one
another and once again we had the words
heard the words and they heard them I
can't breathe an act of brutality so
elemental it did more than deny one more
black man in America his civil rights
and human rights it denied him of his
very humanity it denied him of his life
depriving George florid is as a deprived
Eric garner one of the things every
human being must be able to do breathe
so simple so basic so brutal you know
was the same thing happened with Aubrey
the same thing happened with Brianna
Taylor the same thing with George Floyd
you know we've spoken their names
allowed we'd cried the mountain pain and
in horror we chill them into a long
suffering hearts the relays the dishes
to the endless list of stolen potential
wiped out unnecessarily you know it's a
list that dates back more than 400 years
black men black women black children the
original sin of this country still
stains our nation today
and sometimes we managed to overlook it
we just pushed forward with a thousand
other tasks in our daily life but it's
always there and weeks like this we see
it plainly
that we're a country with an open wound
and none of us can turn away none of us
can be silent none of us can any longer
can we hear the words I can't breathe
and do nothing you know we can't fail
victims like you know what Martin Luther
King called the appalling silence of
good people every day African Americans
go about their lives with a constant
anxiety and trauma wondering who'll be
next
imagine if every time your husband or
son wife or daughter left the house you
feared for their safety from bad
actors and bad police imagine if you had
to have that talk with your child about
not asserting your rights
taking the abuse handed out to them so
so just so they could make it home
imagine having police called on you just
for sitting in Starbucks or or running
an air B&B or watching Birds you know
this is the norm black people in this
country deal with they don't have to
imagine it the anger and frustration and
the exhaustion it's undeniable but then
that's not the promise of America it's
long past time that we made the promise
of this nation real for all people you
know this is no time for incendiary
tweets tweets it's no time to encourage
violence this is a national crisis we
need real leadership right now
leadership that will bring everyone to
the table so we can take measures root
out systemic racism it's time for us to
take a hard look at the uncomfortable
truths it's time for us to face that
deep open wound we have this nation we
need justice for George Floyd
we need real police reform but hold cops
to a higher standard that so many I'm
actually me that holds bad cops
accountable the repairs relationship
between law enforcement the community
they're sworn to protect we need to
stand up as a nation with the black
community with all minority communities
and come together as one America that's
the challenge we face you know it's a
it's gonna require those of us who sit
in some position of influence to finally
deal with the abuse of power
the pain is too immense for one
community to bear alone I believe is the
duty of every American to grapple with
it and to grapple with it now with our
complacency our silence we are complicit
perpetuating these cycles of violence
nothing about this will be easier
comfortable but if we simply allow this
wound to scab over once more without
treating the underlying inch
we'll never truly heal the very soul of
America is at stake we must commit as a
nation to pursue justice without with
every every and every ounce of our being
we have to pursue it with real urgency
got to make real the promise of America
what you've never fully grasped that all
men and women are equal not only
creation but throughout their lives
again to George's family thanks for
taking the time to talk to me I promise
you I promise you we do everything in
our power to see to it that justice is
had your brother your cousin this case
guys love y'all
hi folks we got to stand up we got to
move got a change