Any time. Because I sidelined myself from the fight for a while and it cost too much.
Abby Franquemont
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I sidelined too.

I got beat up pretty bad speaking out.

I let myself get bullied into submission. I allowed my affinity for law enforcement back me into a corner.

What I have decided recently is that I do not have to choose. If people can’t understand that I am fully capable of caring about all people at the same time, that is their problem to solve, not mine.

I am done sugar coating. I don’t understand why everybody doesn’t get the parallels.

The Daily Show did a great job illustrating this one or the other proposition that I faced and backed down from.

Never again.

I get to love and care for whomever I want. I want all people to be safe.

I stand for that. But I know all lives do not matter until black lives matter.

Black lives matter.

H.