What do you mean?

What do you mean I have to wake up my sleeping babies to get ready for school

While other babies are being put behind concrete walls and barbed wire?

What do you mean I have to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

While children across America can’t afford basic pantry staples and have lunch debt?

What do you mean I have to drive my son to school

While a mother gets murdered for trying to drive away?

What do you mean I have to record my daughter at ballet

While a VA nurse gets murdered for recording on a public street.

What do you mean I have to wake up and act like everything is normal

While absolutely none of this is normal.

None of this should be acceptable.

None of this should be forgotten.

Ignored.

Silenced.

Denied justice.

What do you mean that’s not what I saw?

What do you mean they only need two weeks of training?

What do you mean “he was bait”?

What do you mean “she should have just complied”?

What do you mean “they can detain you without cause”?

This is not normal.

None of this is normal.

And you don’t have to accept it as normal.

You don’t have to feel normal.

You don’t have to hold it all in.

You don’t have to be okay.

None of this is okay.

We are not okay.

But are we great yet?