"Today is my due date, and I can’t stop thinking about George Floyd," writes HuffPost guest writer Latona Giwa. "I keep telling myself I"Today is my due date, and I can’t stop thinking about George Floyd," writes HuffPost guest writer Latona Giwa. "I keep telling myself I shouldn’t be thinking about 'things like this' right now, that the moments before I give birth should be spent in meditative relaxation. Surely, now is the time to reflect on the beauty and hope of new life, not the pain and ugliness of this world. But my mind keeps wandering back to a Black man’s face being flattened into the ground by the weight of a cop’s knee, his eyes begging for mercy he would not receive." ⁠
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"Looking at photos of Floyd smiling and posing for the camera, I feel my womb heave as I try not to cry. I try to take some deep breaths and send them to the baby, try to find strength in the chant of 'Black lives matter.' Ahmaud Arbery’s family’s lawyer said that 'his life mattered' while arguing for Arbery’s assailants to be arrested and convicted," writes Giwa. "Still, I try to sigh away the painful knowledge that this society is constructed around the assertion that my baby’s life — like Arbery, Taylor and Floyd’s — already matters less than its white counterparts before it has even left the womb." Read her full essay at our link in bio. // 📷 Latona Giwa ...read more