Tonight, It's About Us! Why you may ask? Because our lives depend on it! So, tonight we take a look at 'what's at stake' for us. As we walk this journey called Life, in the 21st Century, the year 2019, what are the major aspects of our life and in society that we need to be the most vigilent about making sure we are educated, enlightened and empowered to defend? I would submit to you, that it is our social, our economic, and our political future. Becuase, if left unprotected, if left unsecured, if left in the hands of those whom have always dictated the process and the outcomes, for us, then we will be left to recycle a Century of 'What If's, or How About, and Maybe's" that ultimately left us in segregated communities with little to know services. Subpar public educational institutions, high rates of poverty and unemployment, bias and racially charged judicial encounters, making us no better off today, then we were when black folks lived under the laws of Jim Crow.
So, "What's At Stake" for us, and how are we going to respond to it? Tonight when we ask that question and my first guest can answer that question. She can define that question in its most starkest terms. She can bring the answer to that question to life? She can make something so abstract become real. Why can she do that? Because for the past four years, in a matter of 2.6 seconds, 'What's At Stake' became her reality! My guest tonight is Shamaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12yr old boy who was tragically and vicously murdered by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann.
