⚖I wrote this piece in 2015 to cope with the murder of my friend Max. I remember sitting in the courtroom everyday coming face to face with the two men who killed him. The day I saw them sentenced, I thought I would feel something - that justice was acheived...but what is justice? . . 🔸️It's a question that continues to haunt me regularly, especially between Derek Chauvin's verdict and the murder of 15 year old Ma'Khia Bryant by Ohio PD. When we think one chapter of pain is closing and healing can begin, its immediately ripped away and here we are starting from scratch again. . . 🔸️I'd look at prisons very differently if the money they generated went back to the victims who suffered rather than back into a racist police state. As long as there is profit motives involved, the systems in place will never provide justice. . . 🔸️From here justice looks like a long way off - all the justices...from environmental to economic justice. . . 👉👉👉What do you imagine justice to be? Let's ...