Jacob Blake.
I watched the video of Jacob Blake being tracked by multiple, armed, white cops who mercilessly shot him in the back. One pulled on his t-shirt, like a child does to their parent, as he walked forward to open his car door. The cops pulled on his t-shirt and then shot him. Does that not stir outrage in everyone enough to call "stop" to the insidious horror of cops shooting Black men - at close range, without contest, and for no reason? His children were in the car; they are forever scarred by the sight of their father being stalked by pathological men. Those children will never be the same. They lost their youth on that day. How any one of us white Americans is not utterly horrified; how a single person does not recoil in horror over the sight of Jacob's shooting reveals the depth of our ignorance. Ignorance is not about a lack of education; ignorance is about a lack of awareness, exposure, and openness. Curiosity rivals ignorance. Ignorance drives us to live every day trying to "look good and be right" even at the expense of someone else - a man, with kids, with a life. His name is Jacob Blake.

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