I'm a mom who came out to protest for Black lives in Portland. I was shot by federal agents.
Our president wants you to believe I am a terrorist, a professional agitator stalking the Pacific Northwest.
I don’t yet realize how many other moms are slipping oven mitts into backpacks , how many dads are hoisting leaf blowers from sheds , how many teens are gathering plastic toboggans to shield themselves from officers in combat fatigues aiming stun-grenade launchers through temporary fencing around the federal courthouse.
I listen to a Black man on the Justice Center steps invoke the memory of John Lewis while thousands of doctors, veterans, teachers, attorneys stand peacefully, our hands in the air. It is Lewis’ words–“Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society”–that echo as the gas swallows me.
For a second the gas lifts, and it seems there are only a few women left, standing arm in arm in the yellow shirts those agents know mark us as mothers, just empty asphalt between us and the men some other mothers raised.
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