Hello, word-lovers and oven-users. I fully expected to be writing to you today after learning that Derek Chauvin had not been convicted. I am glad that that is not the case. But his conviction is not justice. On the day he was convicted, police in Ohio murdered 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant. Abolition is justice. Black people walking and driving and singing and shouting and living without fear for their lives is justice. Justice will come when we dismantle the system that was built to uphold white supremacy.
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