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No More Hashtags

2020, take a workshop! You do not put devastating fires, killer wasps, a pandemic, economic crisis and the worlds largest civil rights movement into the first six months... what have you got planned for the rest of this year?  In case you really are on a foreign planet reading this the title of this post, "no more hashtags" is my way of saying no more deaths in black community at the hands of the people charged with protecting the general public. Each person who has died becomes a hashtag to get their names out into the world and get justice for that person. Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and of course, Breonna Taylor are the names on the world's lips at the moment. If you don't know those names, where have you been? Why am I, a white person, writing this post on black lives matter? I have learnt this week that we should having uncomfortable conversations with our friends and family and I honestly believe the only way some people will access the things I have learnt ove...