Community organizers are making calls for healing and change. Author: Giacomo Luca (ABC10) Updated: 11:34 PM PDT April 21, 2021
STOCKTON, Calif. Some 30 people gathered in Stockton’s Victory Park Wednesday to reflect on recent police killings of people of color across America.
Duante Wright, 20, was killed in a Minneapolis suburb. Adam Toledo, 13, was killed in Chicago, Illinois. Ma’Kiah Bryant, 16, was killed in Columbus, Ohio. All of their killings happened within weeks of one another.
Alfonso “Fonzo” Grijalva with Free Minds, a Stockton community organizing group, says he’s been hit hard by the recent events.
“You can never get justice to bring somebody back to life, but to give hope for like people of color,” said Grijalva.
Meet up: Central Park, 969 Kiely Blvd Santa Clara 95051, then caravan to St. James Park, N 2nd St, San Jose 95112 for the Rally
Masks & Social Distancing Required; Peaceful protest
By Tom Palaima and Al Martinich
As the new year approached, our current factionalized politics made us aware once again how many Americans don’t see the dire need of others in our own country. This perhaps explains why the Dallas Morning News reported in May that conservatives wanted The Great Gatsby to be banned from schools. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s portrayal of how the privileged rich ignore the suffering their actions cause the poor might give students wrong ideas, like social consciences. While thinking such thoughts, we received an email from Jay Hartzell, president of the University of Texas, to the UT Austin community dated January 2. What matter of importance might it be addressing on a Saturday afternoon? We wondered.
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