America in 2020 - How the Black Lives Matter movement raised our collective consciousness
“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye It is the end of May, in the virus plagued, abnormal and terrifying, 2020. We are getting used to the concept of American citizens dying in the hundreds every day, doctors and nurses pleading for us to stay home, media showing footage of overwhelmed hospitals and devastated families, and a failed leadership unable to provide any direction as the pandemic is raging wild. While we are already lost, there comes another breaking news, and this one, takes the country by storm. George Floyd becomes a household name, and the three words he said in his last moments become the pulse of the young and the old, and the nation unites in an unprecedented way! In my 22 years in the US, I have never seen a movement so strong, passions so high, and the march for justice so relentless. We watch the news, and as brown immigrants, relate somewhat