Honoring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

I have been trying to write this all morning but grief makes it difficult to put together the proper words to describe the anger and the sadness. So I apologize for the unusually late post.

This week ICE shot and killed another member of our community. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a Mexican national who resided in the United states for 35 years. He was a father, a husband, and a community member that created job opportunities and made this country a better place. He did not deserve this heinous violation of his human rights.

In this moment, we grieve with Lorenzo’s family, his wife, and his three sons. We grieve together for the brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers—members of our collective family we have lost to state sanctioned violence. And we hold space for our rage, our sadness and our fear of living in a country where they can kill us on the street for simply being black or brown and trying to make it to work.

We can’t give up. We owe it to our neighbors and community members to work toward a better world for us all, because a better world is possible.

I did not intend on writing a full page description of what happened to Lorenzo or what his family is undergoing at this time. There are countless news channels and social media pages covering this story.

I simply wanted to acknowledge our collective loss, and the disorientation that I know we all feel at this time.

Con mucho amor y todo mi corazón.

-Christián

If you would like to read more about what happened read this article on PBS or check out this post by Channeldraw below. Take of yourselves and one another.

We’ll see you next week