The pain of recognizing our fathers, uncles, brothers, mothers, sisters, and aunts in the faces of so many Black men and women who were taken from us because of racism and violence.
Many of us are old enough to remember when Rodney King was brutally beaten by police in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago.
Enough with excessive force at the hands of police officers who took an oath to protect and serve our communities.
That one day her child could be the next Emmett Till, Rodney King, George Floyd, Kalief Browder, Jordan Davis, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Philando Castille, Ezell Ford, Sandra Bland, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Freddie Grey, Sean Reed, or countless others.
A lifelong public safety and civil rights leader, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris was the first African-American and first woman to serve as Attorney General of California, and the second African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in history.
