Sending love to aching Black families in America
Adeyela Albury Bennett
I am a mother.
As such, I hold the members of the aching African American community close to my heart to love and comfort them.
In just about every African American home, we are individually and collectively grieving the senseless lynching-by-police of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by Minnesota officer Kim Potter on April 11, 2021. This, while we yet mourn the heartless public lynching-by-police of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, also in Minnesota, and the March 13, 2020, lynching-by-police of Breonna Taylor, who was innocently laying in her bed in Kentucky.
I now comprehend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s solution to the pain and suffering African Americans have endured in America since 1619: “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”