i don’t believe this statement in the tweet. but it makes me remember questions i’ve had for years now about what “justice” looks like for Black families who’ve lost a loved one to anti-Black violence. in my MSW classes we learned that there are different kinds of justice (specifically distributive justice), which i already sort of knew from organizing work, i.e. restorative, transformative, etc. freshman year at osu i met Dr. Michelle Alexander and i asked her what does just

Today we honored our dead. Gave thanks for the breath in our own bodies. And grieved the possibilities, the futures, that we’ve lost. I went to a service where I heard my elders give calls to action. Told us to get together, stick together, and don’t let our grief make us immobile. To harness our rage. To act out of an ethos of love. As the names of the folks we’ve lost to violence and/or suicide ran across the screen in the church, I felt a familiar ache. One I feel everyti