Sandra Bland's Mother: 'It's Time To Wake Up, Get Up, Stand Up Or Shut Up'

Sandra Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, had some words for the Congressional Caucus for Black Women & Girls, a group formed to help form policy to help black women and girls in the United States.

It is so gut-wrenching, so powerful, and so perfectly said that I'm just going to leave the transcript here and let you all watch her.

Via Fusion:

I want to say to all of you who sit here today, thank you. Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to be here today. Sometimes it’s rough. I don’t have a big long statement to read. What I’m going to say to you is that I’m here representing the mothers who are not heard, I am here representing the mothers who have lost children as we go on about our daily lives. When the cameras and lights are gone, our babies are dead. So I’m going to ask you here today to wake up. Wake up. By a show of hands, can any of you tell me the other six women who died in jail in July 2015 along with Sandra Bland? That is a problem. You all are among the walking dead, and I am so glad that I have come out from among you. I heard about Trayvon, I heard about all the shootings, and it did not bother me until it hit my daughter. I was walking dead just like you until Sandra Bland died in a jail cell in Texas.

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