

I'm a mother, actor, and author of “Taneesha Never Disparaging,” a humorous book about a black Buddhist 5th grader| ig, tw, li @mlavoraperry mlavoraperry.com
…No black person is safe from our government, institutions, and white citizens in the United States. We can be unarmed and gunned down — even in our own homes — because our blackness made a white person “fear for their life.” Most often, the perpetrators of such crimes go unpunished by our government’s laws.
Because we’re not quite at the point where we can call them illnesses, to simply assume, from the outset, that we’ll find biomarkers and the pathologies behind all of them is to potentially close off other avenues of inquiry and research which, from a harm reduction stand…