12 June Selena on Instagram: Message from @kendrick38

@selenagomez: Message from @kendrick38

In America, we haven’t ever prioritized mental health. To understand what’s happening in this country right now, we really have to understand the historical and current trauma forced on Black people. We haven’t ever had a time in our history where Black and Indigenous people have been allowed a chance, time or resources to truly heal. In fact, the systems that we accept and participate in every day – capitalism, policing, prisons, colonization etc – have explicit roots in oppression that target our communities physically, spiritually and mentally. People are energized by the #DefundthePolice movement because they see a good chance to take those funds – over 100 billion dollars nationwide – to transfer them to new community based systems that address the root causes of problems that police should not ever be required to handle (including mental health, substance abuse and homelessness). We can imagine and build new systems – a world where everyone has the care, nutrition, shelter and income they need to be well – a world that doesn’t need police. Wouldn’t that be beautiful? 🖤🙏🏽 That’s what would truly #LiberateMentalHealth #BLDPWR ⠀
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Book recommendation: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy ⠀
Accounts that I mentioned in the video @mvmnt4blklives @osopepatrisse @docmellymel @blmlosangeles @cpdaction @housingjustice4all @sistersong @blackvisionscollective @ignitekindred @thedreamdefenders @texas_organizing_project ⠀
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— Kendrick Sampson (@kendrick38)

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In America, we haven’t ever prioritized mental health. To understand what’s happening in this country right now, we really have to understand the historical and current trauma forced on Black people. We haven’t ever had a time in our history where Black and Indigenous people have been allowed a chance, time or resources to truly heal. In fact, the systems that we accept and participate in every day – capitalism, policing, prisons, colonization etc – have explicit roots in oppression that target our communities physically, spiritually and mentally. People are energized by the #DefundthePolice movement because they see a good chance to take those funds – over 100 billion dollars nationwide – to transfer them to new community based systems that address the root causes of problems that police should not ever be required to handle (including mental health, substance abuse and homelessness). We can imagine and build new systems – a world where everyone has the care, nutrition, shelter and income they need to be well – a world that doesn’t need police. Wouldn’t that be beautiful? 🖤🙏🏽 That’s what would truly #LiberateMentalHealth #BLDPWR ⠀ ⠀ Book recommendation: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy ⠀ Accounts that I mentioned in the video @mvmnt4blklives @osopepatrisse @docmellymel @blmlosangeles @cpdaction @housingjustice4all @sistersong @blackvisionscollective @ignitekindred @thedreamdefenders @texas_organizing_project ⠀ ⠀ — Kendrick Sampson (@kendrick38)

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