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Lest we forget: Children are watching this racism, violence and our reactions

  • Written by Nia Heard-Garris, Instructor, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg Sch
imageCara McClure of Birmingham, Alabama cries Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia at a solidarity meeting.AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

I find myself in this place again. I am numb. I feel empty. I almost have no words.

The saddest part about this? I wrote these exact words little more than a year ago.

And now, here I am again, feeling the same feelings I...

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