"She went off script and started with a prayer.
“I need you all to hear me tonight. Give me two moments to tell you how good God is. Hallelujah.”
The unmistakable tone in her voice. That cadence that indicates testimony was about to begin. Geneva-Reed Veal, Sandra Bland’s mother, had just called everyone in the Wells Fargo Center to attention.
“Give me a moment to say thank you,” she said.
Chants of “Black Lives Matter!” had been so loud in the convention hall she could barely be heard.
“We are not standing here because He’s not good, we are standing here because He’s great.”
To call God great in the depths of one’s deepest pain is a practice black people have mastered for centuries. Grieving bodies that would never be returned. Justice that would never come. Questions that would never be answered. And yet we’ve insisted on moving ‘forward,’ creating opportunity in sorrow.
Reed-Veal was in great but tragic company — 8 other mothers stood by her side on the DNC stage.
Joining her was Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Cleopatra Pendleton, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown; and Annette Nance Holt, mother of Blair Holt..."
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