“I hope that this can shift the narrative about young people of color in Chicago. This idea of

“I hope that this can shift the narrative about young people of color in Chicago. This idea of black-on-black crime that everyone likes to talk about is totally spun out of context without recognizing where the real violence comes from. It comes from the police, it’s from the state, it’s from the mayor closing 50 schools in one day. The conversation about violence shouldn’t be something that’s criminalizing black and brown youth in Chicago. It needs to be about state violence.” — Asha Rosa of We Charge Genocide

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