This.....Represent, young sister!

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4. I was going to post this.

I'm glad you beat me to it.

EVERYONE needs to see this girl.

My sister told me about her, and I raced home to see what she had to say. Last year I saw a poster of 16 girls who were missing in Washington, DC. Girls who don't make the news. Girls whose photos only get circulated by concerned friends on Facebook. Naomi spoke for them.

I have no doubt that no action will be taken, and nothing will change when it comes to African-American girls and women who are the victims of gun violence.

But at least she said what needed to be said, and people heard it. And maybe they will remember her words, or just remember her face, and her hair, and that she was 11, and had something to say. I've been to rallies. You don't always remember the words. So many people speak. And you nod and cheer, but the words don't always stick. What MIGHT stick is if someone takes Naomi's words and makes them a rallying cry for some action, and people who heard her respond and participate.

I don't know what that action will be. But my fingers are crossed. I don't want my nieces to be statistics.