If you think that the protests aren’t relevant, that it doesn’t affect or apply to us in our small faraway Alaska town:
The knee on the neck of George Floyd was the gunship that bombed Kake, Wrangell and Angoon.
The knee on the neck of George Floyd brought the smallpox plague that wiped out Chilkoot village.
The knee on the neck of George Floyd raped a native woman at Ayiklutu and then renamed it Seduction Point.
The knee on the neck of George Floyd bulldozed Deer Rock in Chilkoot.
The knee on the neck of George Floyd takes countless lives in this state with alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide.
Colonialism has a dark side.
Can you breathe?
Joe Aultman-Moore