Occupation
Wife/Mother/Grandmother/Sister/Retired School Teacher/Viola and Violinist
Risk Factor
Over 65
“I am no stranger to adversity. At 6 years old, going into the 1st Grade, I was one of the first Black children to be integrated into a White school in Nashville. The year was 1957. Since then, I have watched the Civil Rights movement unfold, the protests for Vietnam…time and time again people have marched; but this movement feels different. With the whole world being on lock-down, we could not look away from the murder of George Floyd, maybe that’s a silver lining. We are not ‘throw away people’. My spiritual leader at my church is ‘High Risk’ and we depend on him heavily for guidance and stability. The congregation cannot afford to loose him; it would be utterly devastating for so many. Just because we are ‘older’ does not mean our lives are worth less or that our loss would not affect our community. Age and experience equals wisdom.”
