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I want to honor the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and the countless others who have lost their lives to senseless acts of racial violence.\u00a0My heartfelt prayers are with their families and communities.\u00a0
For several days, I have struggled to respond to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and the resistance that has followed.\u00a0\u00a0
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I have struggled because I am tired.\u00a0\u00a0
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I am weary of the anti-Black racism running throughout every fiber of the world in which we live.\u00a0\u00a0
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I am tired of the hashtags and demonizing of victims of state-sanctioned violence.
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I am tired of watching the killing of Black people over and over and over again.
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I am tired of \u201cwaiting on the facts\u201d before arrests are made only for acquittals to follow those arrests.\u00a0
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Enough is enough!
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While I am mentally and emotionally weary, my spirit remains strong.\u00a0\u00a0My spirit empowers me to continue to fight to be Black\u00a0and<\/strong>\u00a0live. I will resist the evil of anti-Black racism by fighting for justice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Though we may fight in different ways, what matters is that we resist. Wars are won by using multiple tactics.\u00a0What matters most is that we unite and stand in solidarity in our fight against systemic racism, inequity and oppression. Through our vision and mission, the Benjamin Banneker Association has committed to dismantling barriers that hinder\u00a0all children \u2013 particularly African American children\u00a0from having\u00a0equitable opportunities to study and achieve in mathematics.\u00a0Systemic racism and inequities are barriers that must be dismantled and can be through our collective actions. While we have made some progress, there is so much more to be done.\u00a0 Let us also not forget to take care of ourselves. In the words of Audrey Lorde, \u201cCaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.\u201d In solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crystal\u00a0Morton\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n BBA President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear BBA Family, I want to honor the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and the countless others who have lost their lives to senseless acts of racial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbamath.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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As we move forward, let us act on the position shared in\u00a0NCTM\u2019s\u00a0Statement on George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. Dr. Trena L. Wilkerson, NCTM President and Dr. Robert Berry, NCTM Past President, encouraged us\u00a0to use mathematics as an analytic tool to challenge power, privilege, and oppression, to challenge systems of oppression that privilege some while disadvantaging others and to create socially and emotionally safe spaces for\u00a0<\/em>[ourselves],\u00a0<\/em>[our]\u00a0students, and colleagues.<\/em>
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