He crosses my mind like constantly. I was radicalized by the Mike Brown wave of BLM but Tamir is the one that got to me especially. He was fucking 12, and got gunned down on broad daylight, and there was no justice.
I just. I cant get over it. I dont even think I should.
I don't think any of us should. Just because a lot of awful shit is happening, we can't let it just wash over us or stop paying attention to the individual people getting murdered.
Tamir Rice was a child and for his murder to be seen as anything else is deeply unsettling. People are still willing to debate that. It hurts to think about it, but we can't forget that the institutions that killed Tamir Rice are still an active threat.
The same institutions that safely apprehends armed white supremacists all the time. In a country like that, how can we get over the murder of an unarmed twelve year old?