It's not just about let's take a knee or let's be silent for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, you know, for George Floyd, it goes way beyond that.

I'm African American and this is something that could happen to me.

It could happen to me tomorrow It could happen to me tomorrow,

could happen to me next week.

So I want to create a future that allows me

to not only be safe in this society,

but allows everyone else who looks like me to be safe.

The reality of police violence and institutional racism has been happening in this country

for hundreds of years.

Black folk have been having conversation in this country, the United States of America, for

hundreds of years.

It's really difficult to think right, to function straight, to not always feel this low-lying pressure of being on.

That concerns me because racism is taking its toll.

The toxic stress caused by racism is taking its toll. I think we are tired and frustrated and angry and more than anything we know that this isn't new, and this won't be the end.

It will be, and it has been a continuation of hatred and bigotry and oppression and racism that people of color, black bodies in

particular in this moment have suffered through.

I think we have to be really careful when it comes to our well-being

because the way that you show up in this time

can and should be completely authentic and in alignment with your values and with your self-care as top priority,

especially for black, brown, indigenous people of color because we don't want this movement to create

more harm within our communities and within ourselves.

Those were the voices of Theresa Scott, Adrian Michael Green, Jennifer Kit,

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