A young girl climbed up a step ladder to stand at the podium before a tense Charlotte City Council meeting.
Petite in size, with braids in her hair and hearts on her t-shirt, Zianna Oliphant collected herself and delivered her message loud and clear.
“It’s a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed and we can’t see them anymore. It’s a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side.”
*tears*
This made me cry for hours. She looks so exhausted and she’s only a baby.
9-years-old and this is the heavy reality she’s forced to deal with. Black children are robbed of their childhood (figuratively and literally) when they or their parents are targeted and executed by racist police forces.
This breaks my heart.
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